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NOUN (3)

1. perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated;
[syn: dogtooth violet, dogtooth, dog's-tooth violet]

2. one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars;
[syn: canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid]

3. a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dogtooth \Dog"tooth`\, n.; pl. Dogteeth. 1. See Canine tooth, under Canine. [1913 Webster] 2. (Arch.) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament. [1913 Webster] Dogtooth spar (Min.), a variety of calcite, in acute crystals, resembling the tooth of a dog. See Calcite. Dogtooth violet (Bot.), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog's-tooth violet.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dogtooth n 1: perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated [syn: dogtooth violet, dogtooth, dog's-tooth violet] 2: one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars [syn: canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid] 3: a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England