deciduous tooth

Example Sentences

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They sent a deciduous tooth, a baby tooth as evidence of the lengths to which they are prepared to go to enforce their demands on me.

From Death Points a Finger by Levinrew, Will

The first premolar in both Indicus and Sondaicus is a deciduous tooth, which is not usually replaced, and gradually drops out with age, but it may be retained till extreme old age.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

While this is a deciduous tooth, I mean a baby tooth, it is not Thomas's tooth.

From Death Points a Finger by Levinrew, Will