Usually means: Teeth specialized for cutting flesh.
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  1. carnassial: Merriam-Webster
  2. carnassial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carnassial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carnassial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carnassial: Vocabulary.com
  6. carnassial: Wordnik
  7. carnassial: Wiktionary
  8. carnassial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. carnassial: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Carnassial, carnassial: Dictionary.com
  11. Carnassial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Carnassial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. carnassial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. carnassial: Rhymezone
  15. Carnassial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. carnassial: FreeDictionary.org
  17. carnassial: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. carnassial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. carnassial: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. carnassial: Encyclopedia

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  2. carnassial: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carnassial)

▸ noun:  One of the teeth used by a carnivore for shearing flesh, being the last upper premolar and the first lower molar.

Similar:
sharp, sectorial, hypercarnivore, canine, camassial, megacarnivore, carnivore, incisiviform, caniniform, incisor, more...

Opposite:
herbivorous, vegetarian, frugivorous

Phrases:
carnassial teeth, carnassial tooth, more...

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Similar:
sharp, sectorial, hypercarnivore, canine, camassial, megacarnivore, carnivore, incisiviform, caniniform, incisor, more...

Opposite:
herbivorous, vegetarian, frugivorous

Phrases:
carnassial teeth, carnassial tooth, more...



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