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any of a set of hard, bonelike structures set in the jaws of most vertebrates that consists typically of a sensitive, vascular pulp surrounded by dentin and coated on the crown with enamel and on the root with cementum, and used for biting, tearing, chewing, and also as weapons of attack or defence; a tooth.
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a very long, large, pointed tooth, usu. one of a pair, projecting outside the mouth in elephants, wild boars, walruses, etc., and used for defence, digging up food, etc.; a tusk.
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the crest or summit of a hill or mountain ending in a point; a peak.
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the table land by the side or around a mountain.
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a thick growth of shrubs or underbrush; a thicket.
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the thin point, tip of a weapon (as of a sword).
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the plant Croton tigilium of Euphorbiaceae family the seeds of which are used as a purgative.
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(math.) the symbol for the number thirty-two.