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Definition of Canines
1. canine [n] - See also: canine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canines
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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