Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a canine tooth.
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- adjective Shaped like a
canine tooth
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Examples
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Its immense long-jawed skull and huge, subconical caniniform teeth were well suited for predation on other marine reptiles, and numerous Oxford Clay reptiles exhibit bite marks that match Liopleurodon teeth (Anderson 2005).
Life in the Oxford Clay sea Darren Naish 2006
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Its immense long-jawed skull and huge, subconical caniniform teeth were well suited for predation on other marine reptiles, and numerous Oxford Clay reptiles exhibit bite marks that match Liopleurodon teeth (Anderson 2005).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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All incisors are caniniform with simple conical crowns on a single root.
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Again, all incisors are caniniform with simple conical crowns on a single root.
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