adjective. Adapted for tearing apart flesh.

noun. A tooth adapted for tearing apart flesh, especially one of the last upper premolar or first lower molar teeth in carnivorous mammals.

Sectorial; adapted for cutting and tearing flesh: applied to the specialized trenchant or cutting molar or premolar of the Carnivora.

noun. A sectorial tooth; the last upper premolar or first lower molar tooth of those Carnivora which have a typically carnivorous dentition, as the cat or dog.

adjective. Adapted to eating flesh.

noun. One of the teeth used by a carnivore for shearing flesh, being the last upper premolar and the first lower molar.

adjective. (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh

"The incisors are somewhat larger than, but the canines and premolars approximate to, those of the felines; the crown of the incisors is cuspidate, and the premolars increase gradually in size, with the exception of the fourth in the upper jaw, the carnassial, which is treble the size of the one next to it."

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