NOUN
- the last upper premolar and first lower molar teeth of a carnivore; having sharp edges for cutting flesh
How To Use carnassial tooth In A Sentence
- Hypercarnivory is recognized on the basis of a set of proportions: relative lengthening of the carnassial blade, relative shortening of the face, and relative reduction of the postcarnassial tooth row.
- The fourth premolar and the lower carnassial tooth show considerable wear.
- The dimensions of the lower fourth premolar and lower carnassial tooth as well as the morphology of the mandibular ramus of the specimen from South Turkwel unequivocally identify it as an earlier representative of M. whites.
- Grey wolf bones were found below the 960 BP layer, and a wolf carnassial tooth even lower. Yellowstone National Park, United States
