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Meanings of dogtooth in English

Portuguese
dente canino
Catalan
ullal
Spanish
canino

One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars.

        dente canino

        Perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated.

              Usage of dogtooth in English
              1
              Vegetation was rank, and the dogtooth violet, honeysuckle, blue-bell, and columbine were in blossom.
              First Across the Continent / The Story of the Exploring Expediti...
              2
              A single wooden spire rose from the Norman church, a dogtooth pattern of lead tiles catching the light.
              The coldest blood
              3
              One may see that angular dogtooth ornament that makes the round Norman gateways look like the gaping mouths of sharks.
              The New Jerusalem
              4
              The crystals are about an inch high in the shape of dogtooth or calcareous spar, covered with a dark ferruginous matter.
              The Botanic Garden / A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of...
              5
              Another form of calcite which is to be sparingly found is what is called dogtooth spar, having the form shown in Fig.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
              6
              Bug pointed to a group of students wandering about in search of dogtooth violets and other botanical plunder from Nature's springtime treasury.
              A Master's Degree
              7
              It is the only locality in which I have found the dogtooth violet in bloom, and the best place I know of to gather arbutus.
              Wake-Robin
              8
              Stick to that one, and you'll miss Dogtooth by more'n ten miles.
              Savage
              9
              We gotta go on up to Dogtooth and set 'em right.
              Savage
              10
              Well, I'll give you a steer so you stay clear of Dogtooth, then.
              Savage
              11
              I could see why the mountain had gotten itself called Dogtooth.
              Savage
              12
              We'll just steer clear of Dogtooth Mountain tomorrow, I decided.
              Savage
              13
              The Greek director emerged as an oddball for the age with his brilliant second feature Dogtooth.
              The Irish Times
              14
              The weird and the wonderful combine to thrilling effect in Yorgos Lanthimos's perplexing second feature Dogtooth.
              The Irish Times
              15
              From the trail at the base of Dogtooth, we'd be less than two days from Tombstone.
              Savage
              16
              Up on the north slope of Dogtooth Mountain.
              Savage
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              Translations for dogtooth
              Portuguese
              dente canino
              Spanish
              canino
              Dogtooth through the time