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# fang

«fang» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially of a dog, wolf…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fang, fangs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially of a dog, wolf, snake or vampire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/#m1)

2) The poison tooth of a snake or a spider's biting part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature: snakes inject venom through fangs; dogs and wolves use fangs to grip food. In stories: vampires and monsters have fangs. Safety: keep away from snakes and dogs that bare their fangs (show their teeth).

### examples

- The wolf bared its fangs and growled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/#x1)
- Some snakes have hollow fangs for venom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/#x2)
- The vampire in the story had long white fangs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/#x3)
- The dog showed its fangs, so we walked away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/#x4)
- A spider bites with its fangs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/#x5)
- The cat's fangs are sharp for catching mice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/#x6)
- Their mouths were black and twisted, and in each of these mouths there was a hedge of curved yellow fangs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/#x7)

### note

Countable: one fang, two fangs. «Bare its fangs» = show its teeth as a warning. Not all snakes have venom fangs. Your own pointed teeth are called canines.

### In the corpora

- [Venom is a poison that an animal pushes into another animal with fangs, a sting or a spine, like a tiny syringe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fang» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fang/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.