teeth
teeth
- n the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal
- n hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
- n something resembling the tooth of an animal
- n toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
- n a means of enforcement
the treaty had no teeth in it - n one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
- Every year 300,000 youngsters go through the painful and costly ordeal of having their crooked teeth clamped into braces to be straightened.
- Twenty years ago, parents in the little town of Oakley, Idaho began to complain that their children were growing up with dark brown, pitted teeth.
- I should never have looked at its teeth.