wolf tooth

noun

variants or less commonly wolf's tooth

1

: a small vestigial first premolar that is sometimes present in a horse on each side in front of the normal grinders and that is regularly found in some fossil members of the family Equidae

2

: needle tooth

3

: a protruding incisor (as in a guinea pig or rabbit)

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