egg tooth

noun

: a hard sharp prominence on the beak of an unhatched bird or the nose of an unhatched reptile that is used to break through the eggshell

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After years when Acuras tended to look like either gussied up Hondas or overwrought attempts to stand out — who else remembers the brand-wide nose job that looked like a baby bird’s egg tooth? —Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2021

After years when Acuras tended to look like either gussied up Hondas or overwrought attempts to stand out — who else remembers the brand-wide nose job that looked like a baby bird’s egg tooth? —Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2021

After years when Acuras tended to look like either gussied up Hondas or overwrought attempts to stand out — who else remembers the brand-wide nose job that looked like a baby bird’s egg tooth? —Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2021

After years when Acuras tended to look like either gussied up Hondas or overwrought attempts to stand out — who else remembers the brand-wide nose job that looked like a baby bird’s egg tooth? —Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2021

After years when Acuras tended to look like either gussied up Hondas or overwrought attempts to stand out — who else remembers the brand-wide nose job that looked like a baby bird’s egg tooth? —Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2021

After years when Acuras tended to look like either gussied up Hondas or overwrought attempts to stand out — who else remembers the brand-wide nose job that looked like a baby bird’s egg tooth? —Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2021

After years when Acuras tended to look like either gussied up Hondas or overwrought attempts to stand out — who else remembers the brand-wide nose job that looked like a baby bird’s egg tooth? —Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2021

After years when Acuras tended to look like either gussied up Hondas or overwrought attempts to stand out — who else remembers the brand-wide nose job that looked like a baby bird’s egg tooth? —Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above