Definition of Canines

1. Noun. (plural of canine) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Canines

1. canine [n] - See also: canine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Canines

canine hysteria
canine infectious cyclic thrombocytopenia
canine leishmaniasis
canine malignant lymphoma
canine oral papilloma
canine panosteitis
canine parvovirus 2
canine parvovirus disease
canine prominence
canine spasm
canine teeth
canine tooth
canine typhus
canineness
canines (current term)
caning
canings
caniniform
caninities
caninity
caninophile
caninophiles
caninus muscle
caniphobia
caniphobias
canistel
canistel tree
canistels
canister

Literary usage of Canines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The last are the canines, which do not fall out till the tenth ... incisors and canines a the place of the temporary incisors and canines, ..."

2. Dental Anatomy by Martin Dewey (1916)
"The canines, or cuspids, are the third teeth from the median line, ... They are called canines because of the position and the relation which they bear in ..."

3. Pye's Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery by Walter Pye (1893)
"Thus the best pattern for the upper in- C\SOTS, canines, and bicuspids, is a pair with jaws straight from the hinge (which should be circular and not ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"The one with small cranium he calls U. Priscus, and the one of Tuscany he first named U. Etruscus; but afterwards, on account of its compressed canines, ..."

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