Definitions
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- adjective Resembling
teeth ;toothlike .
Etymologies
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teeth + -like
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Examples
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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
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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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