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The human tongue, the powerful buckteeth that never stopped growing, the giant muscular haunches and posterior, and these dark-colored paws, partly webbed because the capybara is a semiaquatic creature.
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Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Thankfully, the larger sibling's bucktooth maw is not included.
—Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 2 Apr. 2023
The enormous balloon rodent loomed large on the streets of New York and across the country, with its buckteeth, menacing claws and crimson eyes drawing attention to the grievances of union protesters who had inflated it.
—Michael Gold, New York Times, 31 July 2019
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Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Thankfully, the larger sibling's bucktooth maw is not included.
—Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 2 Apr. 2023
The enormous balloon rodent loomed large on the streets of New York and across the country, with its buckteeth, menacing claws and crimson eyes drawing attention to the grievances of union protesters who had inflated it.
—Michael Gold, New York Times, 31 July 2019
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“Bucktooth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bucktooth. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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bucktooth
noun
buck·tooth
-ˈtüth 
: a large front tooth that sticks out
buck-toothed
adjective
-ˈtütht
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