fang

«fang» in Mova's school dictionary: A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially of a dog, wolf… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fang, fangs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially of a dog, wolf, snake or vampire. tree →

2) The poison tooth of a snake or a spider's biting part. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and nature: snakes inject venom through fangs; dogs and wolves use fangs to grip food. In stories: vampires and monsters have fangs. Safety: keep away from snakes and dogs that bare their fangs (show their teeth).

examples

• The wolf bared its fangs and growled. tree →
• Some snakes have hollow fangs for venom. tree →
• The vampire in the story had long white fangs. tree →
• The dog showed its fangs, so we walked away. tree →
• A spider bites with its fangs. tree →
• The cat's fangs are sharp for catching mice. tree →
• Their mouths were black and twisted, and in each of these mouths there was a hedge of curved yellow fangs. tree →

note

Countable: one fang, two fangs. «Bare its fangs» = show its teeth as a warning. Not all snakes have venom fangs. Your own pointed teeth are called canines.

In the corpora

• Venom is a poison that an animal pushes into another animal with fangs, a sting or a spine, like a tiny syringe.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fang» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.