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Fang
(făng, fäng, fäN)n. pl. Fang or Fangs
1. A member of a people inhabiting Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon.
2. The Bantu language of the Fang.
fang
(făng)n.
1. Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects venom.
2. A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.
3. The root of a tooth or a pronglike division of such a root.
4. 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.
fang
(fæŋ)n
1. (Zoology) the long pointed hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake through which venom is injected
2. (Zoology) any large pointed tooth, esp the canine or carnassial tooth of a carnivorous mammal
3. (Dentistry) the root of a tooth
4. (usually plural) informal Brit tooth: clean your fangs.
[Old English fang what is caught, prey; related to Old Norse fang a grip, German Fang booty]
fanged adj
ˈfangless adj
ˈfangˌlike adj
fang
(fæŋ)vb (intr)
to drive at great speed
n
an act or instance of driving in such a way: we took the car for a fang.
[C20: from Juan Manuel Fangio]
Fang
(fæŋ; fɑːŋ)npl Fangs or Fang
1. (Peoples) a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in the rain forests of Gabon and Rio Muni: noted for their use of iron and copper money and for their sculpture
2. (Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
fang
(fæŋ)n.
1. one of the long sharp hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake by which poison is injected.
2. a long sharp projecting tooth, esp. a canine tooth.
3. the root of a tooth or a pronglike segment of such a root.
4. one of the chelicerae of a spider.
5. a pointed tapering part of a thing.
6. the tang of a tool.
[1545–55; Middle English, Old English: act of catching]
fanged (fangd), adj.
fang′like`, adj.
Fang
(fæŋ, fɑŋ, fɑ̃)also Fan
n., pl. Fangs, (esp. collectively) Fang.
a. a member of an African people living mainly in NW Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and adjacent parts of Cameroon and the Congo Republic.
b. the Bantu language of this people.
fang
(făng) A long, pointed tooth in vertebrate animals or a similar structure in spiders, used to seize prey and sometimes to inject venom. The fangs of a poisonous snake, for example, have a hollow groove through which venom flows.
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Noun | 1. | Fang - a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon Bantoid language, Bantu - a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent |
2. | fang - an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs toxicognath - either of a pair of poison fangs in the modified front pair of legs of the centipede | |
3. | fang - canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey | |
4. | fang - hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison tooth - hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense |
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Translations
ناب الأفْعىناب الحَيوان
jedovatý zubtesák
hugtand
méregfog
höggtönnvígtönn
geluonisiltis
ilknisindes zobs
jedovatý zubtesák
uzun sivri dişzehirli diş
fang
(fӕŋ) noun1. a long pointed tooth especially of a fierce animal. The wolf bared its fangs.
2. the poison-tooth of a snake.