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  • adjective having small teeth

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Examples

  • (Soundbite of slicing) JOYCE: Wrangham says that even after we started eating meat, raw food just didn't pack the energy to build the big-brained, small-toothed, modern human.

    Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter 2010

  • (Soundbite of slicing) JOYCE: Wrangham says that even after we started eating meat, raw food just didn't pack the energy to build the big-brained, small-toothed, modern human.

    Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter 2010

  • He would cling to the sheer curtains, spread flat with his small-toothed grin aimed toward Margaret, ten feet south.

    One-Way Ticket 2009

  • Four of these species are considered critically endangered: Bulmer's fruit-bat (Aproteles bulmerae), large leptomys (Leptomys elegans), eastern shrew-mouse (Pseudohydromys murinus), and lesser small-toothed rat (Macruromys elegans).

    Central Range montane rain forests 2008

  • Rates of wildlife harvesting are unsustainable, and threaten species such as the small-toothed palm civet with extinction.

    Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 1 2007

  • We bowed our heads and drew our bodies to their tightest compass, and every rib of our boat vibrated as a violin does; and the oars were beaten flat, and dashed their drip into fringes like a small-toothed comb.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • He blunted the back of the denticulated tool and reexamined the small-toothed saw he had just made, then nodded and put it down.

    The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

  • The one end is cut like a small-toothed comb, and the other is fastened to a piece of cane, and looks like a little serrated adze.

    Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

  • There are several kinds of saws, namely, the common hand-saw, the key-hole saw, and the small-toothed saw.

    The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin

  • Above all kinds, that of the small-toothed comb is the most injurious in this respect, as it not only inflames the tender skin, but, from the fineness of its teeth, splits and crushes the hairs in being passed through them.

    The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady

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