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Incisor   /ɪnsˈaɪzər/   Listen
Incisor

noun
1.
A tooth for cutting or gnawing; located in the front of the mouth in both jaws.





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"Incisor" Quotes from Famous Books



... improbability in each domestic pig, during a thousand generations, retaining the capacity and tendency to develop great tusks under fitting conditions, than in the young calf having retained for an indefinite number of generations rudimentary incisor teeth, which never protrude through ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin
... complicated adaptive relations are not to be disposed of by the simple word mutation. The males have sexual instincts, themselves dependent on the testicular hormone, which develop sexual jealousy and rivalry, and the Ruminants fight by butting with their heads because they have no incisor teeth in the upper jaw, or tusks, which are used in fighting in other species. Doubtless, mutations have occurred in antlers as in other characters; in fact all hereditary characters are subject to mutation. This in the ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... Quadrupeds, characterised by the absence of at least the middle incisor (front) teeth in both jaws. (Examples, ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Incisor" :   tooth


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