Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling teeth; toothlike.

Etymologies

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teeth +‎ -like

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Examples

  • It was a dogwood; it yelped with pain, then growled and bared its teethlike inner branches in canine fury, seeking its enemy.

    The Source of Magic Anthony, Piers 1979

  • The black, oily waves, with their teethlike crests of white, rose above our bow at every stroke of the sweeps, and when I looked behind me it seemed that we must surely be engulfed.

    The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

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