baby tooth

noun

Definition of baby tooth

: a temporary tooth of a young mammal that in human dentition includes four incisors, two canines, and four molars in each jaw : milk tooth, deciduous tooth If one of my sisters or brothers or I lost a baby tooth, we always put it in an envelope under our pillow.— Ian Frazier By the time a dog is about a year old, the baby teeth will have been gradually replaced by 42 permanent teeth …— Tom Ewing

Examples of baby tooth in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The cross-section of an exfoliated incisor baby tooth mounted to a holder for analysis at Dr. Erin Dunn’s office. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2022 Humans had been living in Australia for at least 10,000 years before the Grotte Mandrin child dropped its baby tooth. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2022 An ancient baby tooth found in a cave in France shows modern humans arrived in western Europe almost 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022 The clearest evidence is a single baby tooth from a modern human child, aged between 2 and 6, that was found in a layer of clay and sand sediments on the floor of the cave. — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2022 According to State Police Detective Sergeant Scott Jarvis, the agency collected DNA samples from the family, along with a DNA sample from a baby tooth belonging to Denise. — Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2020 The opossum, who is less than a year old, weighs two pounds and still has her baby teeth. — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 12 Jan. 2020 Most baby teeth are discarded, as are permanent teeth that are pulled during orthodontic or other dental procedures. — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2019 Friends and family, your one-of-a-kind gift-giving only needs a bit of the mom's breast milk, baby's hair or a first lost baby tooth. — Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019 See More

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