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Also your sharpest tooth, because biology loves a good pun.
means Relating to dogs, or one of the pointed teeth next to your incisors that dogs happen to have very prominent versions of.
from From Latin caninus, 'of a dog,' from canis, 'dog.' Latin anatomists borrowed the word for those sharp, fang-like teeth because they jut out like a dog's — the same root that gives us canine the adjective for all things dog-related, which is why your 'eye tooth' and your neighbor's terrier share a name.
- not dog-only
- wolves, foxes, jackals all count as canine
- tooth cameo
- the pointy fang tooth is literally called a canine
- smell power
- up to 100,000 times more sensitive than human noses
- ancient split
- canids diverged from felines roughly 55 million years ago