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Fanged

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fang  (fng)
n.
1. Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects its poison.
2. Any of the canine teeth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.
3. A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth.
4. The root of a tooth or a pronglike division of such a root.
5. A fanglike structure, especially a chelicera of a venomous spider.
[Middle English, booty, spoils, something seized, from Old English; see pag- in Indo-European roots.]
fanged adj.
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fang
cat showing fangs
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Adj.1.fanged - having fangs


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And then about him coiled the great, slimy folds of a hideous monster of that prehistoric deep--a mighty serpent of the sea, with fanged jaws, and darting forked tongue, with bulging eyes, and bony protuberances upon head and snout that formed short, stout horns.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
No golden dog this, ears flattened and tongue laughing in the arms of the lady-god, no Sing Song Silly chanting ancient memories in the cloud-entanglement of her hair; but a four-legged creature of battle, a fanged killer ripe to rend and destroy.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
When we were abroad pushing our trail farther and farther toward the distant break which, we assumed, marked a feasible way across the range, we never knew at what second some great engine of clawed and fanged destruction might rush upon us from behind, or lie in wait for us beyond an ice-hummock or a jutting shoulder of the craggy steeps.
Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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