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# incisor

«incisor» in Mova's school dictionary: **One of the sharp, flat front teeth used for biting and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an incisor, incisors)

### meaning for a pupil

One of the sharp, flat front teeth used for biting and cutting food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incisor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on teeth: humans have four types of teeth — incisors (cutting), canines (tearing), premolars and molars (grinding). Adults have eight incisors, four on top and four on the bottom; children's first baby teeth are usually incisors. Rodents like rabbits and beavers have incisors that never stop growing.

### examples

- We use our incisors to bite into an apple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incisor/#x1)
- My front incisor is wobbly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incisor/#x2)
- Beavers have big orange incisors for chewing wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incisor/#x3)
- Adults have eight incisors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incisor/#x4)
- Incisors are sharp and flat like chisels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incisor/#x5)
- A rabbit's incisors keep growing all its life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incisor/#x6)

### note

«An incisor» (vowel sound). Countable. Pronounced in-SY-zer. Related: incision (a cut). Compare: canine, molar, premolar.

### In the corpora

- [A grown-up set has 8 incisors for cutting, 4 canines for gripping, 8 premolars and 12 molars for grinding.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/351-teeth-baby-teeth-grown-up-teeth-and-wobbly-teeth/10/)
- [Incisors at the front cut food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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