Incisor
noun
A type of tooth that is sharp and used for cutting food. Humans have four on the top and four on the bottom at front of the mouth.
His incisor was chipped after he bit down on a hard candy.
Often appears as...
- front incisor
- upper incisor
noun
A type of tooth that is sharp and used for cutting food. Humans have four on the top and four on the bottom at front of the mouth.
His incisor was chipped after he bit down on a hard candy.
Often appears as...
- front incisor
- upper incisor
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Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
The word 'incisor' refers specifically to front teeth, not molars or canines.
He used his incisors, not his molars, to bite into the apple.
Pro Tip 2/3Function Clue
'Incisor' comes from a Latin word meaning 'to cut', explaining their use in biting and slicing food.
Rabbits rely on their sharp incisors to cut through vegetation.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Confusion
Don't confuse 'incisor' with 'wisdom tooth', which is a type of molar.
His incisors were perfectly aligned, unlike his troublesome wisdom teeth.
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How a new species of...
In modern humans, the third molar is typically the smallest, while the first molar is the biggest, but Homo naledi has the primitive condition where the third molar is the biggest and the first molar is the smallest. The anterior teeth, or the incisors and canines, are small for the genus Homo,
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4 Adorable Animals That...
lifestyle but are much less adapted to water their feet are less webbed and they spend more of their time on land they have rounded shorter snouts with smaller nostrils and they only have one set of incisor teeth pygmy hippos are
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Encouraging A New-Born...
and this is where their long razor sharp and continuously growing incisor teeth take over they make short work of chewing through the wood to the tunnel beneath and then that peculiar finger really comes into its own and gotcha
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Safari Live - Day 312 PIPE...
positively identify that that guy there is definitely the mohawked male or snarly when he opens his mouth you can see that he's bottom incisors are all sort of crooked and that is a defining characteristic of him and that only
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Discovering Homo Naledi:...
And then we found, during the course of the excavation a few, tiny, rodent incisors, mixed into the sediment. And nothing else. Nothing but hominids. Now, we had on the team world experts in many, many different things.
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Young Hyena Breaks...
and they're born with incisors and really sharp teeth and their eyes open and as soon as they're born they're fighting one another but by the time they get to this stage it's all sorted they already know who's
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A Collection Of Autumn...
here they can use their sharp incisor teeth to strip off the bark from a fallen tree trunk and nibble at it while still being close enough to water to slip away should a bear or a mountain lion turn up
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The Greatest Mammal...
they're chasing the reins which feed these grasses if you look at the woodley's they have these really significant incisor rose and loose lips that's to help them rapidly eat that
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Best of North American...
the distance they can swim by digging channels that lead into the very heart of the woodland here they can use their sharp incisor teeth to strip off the
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Beaver Lodge Construction...
Here they can use their sharp incisor teeth to strip off the bark from a fallen tree trunk and nibble at it, while still being close enough to water,
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How a new species of...
In modern humans, the third molar is typically the smallest, while the first molar is the biggest, but Homo naledi has the primitive condition where the third molar is the biggest and the first molar is the smallest. The anterior teeth, or the incisors and canines, are small for the genus Homo,
Video examples
4 Adorable Animals That...
lifestyle but are much less adapted to water their feet are less webbed and they spend more of their time on land they have rounded shorter snouts with smaller nostrils and they only have one set of incisor teeth pygmy hippos are
Video examples
Encouraging A New-Born...
and this is where their long razor sharp and continuously growing incisor teeth take over they make short work of chewing through the wood to the tunnel beneath and then that peculiar finger really comes into its own and gotcha
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 312 PIPE...
positively identify that that guy there is definitely the mohawked male or snarly when he opens his mouth you can see that he's bottom incisors are all sort of crooked and that is a defining characteristic of him and that only
Video examples
Discovering Homo Naledi:...
And then we found, during the course of the excavation a few, tiny, rodent incisors, mixed into the sediment. And nothing else. Nothing but hominids. Now, we had on the team world experts in many, many different things.
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Young Hyena Breaks...
and they're born with incisors and really sharp teeth and their eyes open and as soon as they're born they're fighting one another but by the time they get to this stage it's all sorted they already know who's
Video examples
A Collection Of Autumn...
here they can use their sharp incisor teeth to strip off the bark from a fallen tree trunk and nibble at it while still being close enough to water to slip away should a bear or a mountain lion turn up
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The Greatest Mammal...
they're chasing the reins which feed these grasses if you look at the woodley's they have these really significant incisor rose and loose lips that's to help them rapidly eat that
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Best of North American...
the distance they can swim by digging channels that lead into the very heart of the woodland here they can use their sharp incisor teeth to strip off the
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Beaver Lodge Construction...
Here they can use their sharp incisor teeth to strip off the bark from a fallen tree trunk and nibble at it, while still being close enough to water,
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Konnie Huq
British Celebrity
Back in humanity's hunter-gatherer days, you only ate meat if you'd recently made a kill, which required a huge amount of effort, and was therefore relatively rare. There's a reason humans only have one set of incisors to rip our meat apart: we're not supposed to eat the stuff at every meal.
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Vermin Supreme
American Artist
For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.
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Walter Bagehot
English Author
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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Konnie Huq
British Celebrity
Back in humanity's hunter-gatherer days, you only ate meat if you'd recently made a kill, which required a huge amount of effort, and was therefore relatively rare. There's a reason humans only have one set of incisors to rip our meat apart: we're not supposed to eat the stuff at every meal.
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Vermin Supreme
American Artist
For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.
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Walter Bagehot
English Author
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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