Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fitted for lacerating or tearing flesh; laniariform: specifically applied to canine teeth when well developed.
  • noun A butcher's stall; shambles.
  • noun A canine tooth when laniariform.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The shambles; a place of slaughter.
  • noun (Anat.) A laniary, or canine, tooth.
  • adjective (Anat.) Lacerating or tearing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Lacerating or tearing
  • noun The shambles; a place of slaughter.
  • noun anatomy A canine tooth.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to a pointed conical tooth

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