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FANG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fang" is a kind of...):
tooth (hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("fang" is a kind of...):
canine; canine tooth; cuspid; dogtooth; eye tooth; eyetooth (one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("fang" is a kind of...):
appendage; extremity; member (an external body part that projects from the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fang"):
toxicognath (either of a pair of poison fangs in the modified front pair of legs of the centipede)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Fang" is a kind of...):
Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)
Context examples:
While getting the right nutrients in the right quantities from food was associated with a longer life, the same wasn’t true for nutrients from supplements, says study co-author Fang Fang Zhang, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
(Healthy Diet Can't Be Replaced by Vitamins, Supplements, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
And furthermore, such was the strangeness of it, White Fang experienced an unaccountable sensation of pleasure as the hand rubbed back and forth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
A most unsociable dog he proved to be, resenting all their advances, refusing to let them lay hands on him, menacing them with bared fangs and bristling hair.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Toller lets him loose every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs upon.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On recognising him, the fang of the snake Jealousy was instantly broken; because at the same moment my love for Celine sank under an extinguisher.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Besides, it was a position of such utter helplessness that White Fang's whole nature revolted against it.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
A low growl greeted such approach; if any one had the hardihood to come nearer, the lips lifted, the naked fangs appeared, and the growl became a snarl—a snarl so terrible and malignant that it awed the stoutest of them, as it likewise awed the farmers' dogs that knew ordinary dog-snarling, but had never seen wolf-snarling before.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
White Fang felt fear mounting in him again.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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