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canine-toothless

canine-toothless adjective: lacking canine teeth.

Adjective

canine-toothless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking canine teeth.
    • […] there was not so much as a mouse-trap, or a bit of arsenic to be found, / Nor a dog—except a very, very old fat spaniel, and a lame and blind and canine-toothless old hound, […]1834 November 15, Sylvanus Swanquill [pseudonym; John Hewitt], “[Old Friends with New Faces. […] [From the London “Comic Annual.”]] The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.”, in The New-York Literary...
    • We find, for example, that the feet are arranged on the plan of those of other horned and canine-toothless Artiodactyle Ungulates, while the stomach has nearly the complexity of that of those animals.1905, Frank E[vers] Beddard, “[The Lemurs: Sub-order Lemuroidea] The Ungulata, or Hoofed Mammals”, in Natural History in Zoological Gardens: Being Some Account of Vertebrated Animals, with Special...

Origin of canine-toothless

From canine tooth + -less.

Questions about canine-toothless

What does canine-toothless mean?
Canine-toothless means lacking canine teeth.
What part of speech is canine-toothless?
Canine-toothless is an adjective.

Words near canine-toothless in the dictionary

  1. canine hysteria
  2. canine letter
  3. canine madness
  4. canine teeth
  5. canine tooth
  6. canine-toothless
  7. caninekind
  8. caninelike
  9. caninely
  10. canineness
  11. canines

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