Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dogtooth

3 senses of dogtooth

Sense 1
dogtooth violet, dogtooth, dog's-tooth violet -- (perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated)
       => liliaceous plant -- (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Sense 2
canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid -- (one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars)
       => tooth -- (hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense)

Sense 3
dogtooth -- (a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England)
       => architectural ornament -- ((architecture) something added to a building to improve its appearance)