carnassial.

Describing specialized teeth that cut or shear flesh as they pass one another.

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Words that belong together

• carnassial teeth
• carnassial pair

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The animal’s carnassial teeth sheared the tough meat.

Behind the long canines lay a powerful carnassial pair.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable. Also used as a countable noun: carnassial; carnassials. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.