fanged

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fang

F0031200 (făng)n.1. Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects venom.2. A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.3. The root of a tooth or a pronglike division of such a root.4. A fanglike structure, especially a chelicera of a venomous spider.

[Middle English, booty, spoils, something seized, from Old English; see pag- in Indo-European roots.]

fanged adj.

Fang

F0031200 (făng, fäng, fäN)n. pl. Fang or Fangs 1. A member of a people inhabiting Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon.2. The Bantu language of the Fang.

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Adj.

fanged - having fangs