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Definition of Primary tooth
1. Noun. One of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children).
Group relationships: Child's Body
Generic synonyms: Tooth
Definition of Primary tooth
1. Noun. milk tooth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primary Tooth
Literary usage of Primary tooth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Remains of a Former World.: An Examination of the Mineralized by James Parkinson (1811)
"The approximation of the secondary towards the centre of the primary tooth appears,
however, in this animal, to have been merely an accidental occurrence. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"The largest primary tooth is median: on each side of it there are two other ...
Overlying the first, lateral, primary tooth in front are the distorted ..."
3. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences by Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (1912)
"... long obtusely conical tooth, from the inner base of which projects an acute
incurved tooth forming nearly a right angle with the primary tooth; ..."
4. Elements of Natural History: Adapted to the Present State of the Science by John Stark (1828)
"primary tooth short and thick. U. elongata, Lam. (Mya margaritifera, Lin. ...
Shell ovate-oblong, with a crenated primary tooth, besides a long lateral ..."
5. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1836)
"... one primary tooth in each valve, or in one only ; ligament external. ...
in euch valve a short, slightly cleft, primary tooth, and a divided groove; ..."
6. The Complete Writings of Thomas Say, on the Conchology of the United States by Thomas Say, William Greene Binney (1858)
"... hinge with a primary tooth in each valve; cicatrices three. ... but is separable
from Anodonta by ito primary tooth ; from Unió by being destitute of ..."
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