Meanings
- not comparableLacking canine teeth.
A crowd of canine-toothless men walk in and capture the vegetables.
1977, [Siyavasa Samaruva]: The Johnian: Centenary Souvenir of St. John’s College, Schools and Cyril Jansz Viyalaya, 1876-1976, Panadura: Association of Old Johnians, →OCLC, page 1382 more examples
[…] there was not so much as a mouse-trap, or a bit of arsenic to be found, / Nor a dog—except a very, very old fat spaniel, and a lame and blind and canine-toothless old hound, […]
1834 November 15, Sylvanus Swanquill [pseudonym; John Hewitt], “[Old Friends with New Faces. […] [From the London “Comic Annual.”]] The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.”, in The New-York Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., number 6, New York, N.Y., page 94, column 1We find, for example, that the feet are arranged on the plan of those of other horned and canine-toothless Artiodactyle Ungulates, while the stomach has nearly the complexity of that of those animals.
1905, Frank E[vers] Beddard, “[The Lemurs: Sub-order Lemuroidea] The Ungulata, or Hoofed Mammals”, in Natural History in Zoological Gardens: Being Some Account of Vertebrated Animals, with Special Reference to Those Usually to Be Seen in the Zoological Society’s Gardens in London and Similar Institutions, London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd; Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 49
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