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fang
n 1 a : a long sharp tooth: as (1) : one by which an animal's prey is seized and held or torn (2) : one of the long hollow or grooved and often erectile teeth of a venomous snake b : one of a spider's chelicerae at the tip of which a poison gland opens 2 : the root of a tooth or one of the processes or prongs into which a root divides fanged adj
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