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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