Meaning: tooth

Illustrative Context

You can break a tooth if you bite on hard food.

Target Sense

• The default, most basic and most frequent term for a human tooth.
• Avoid terms for specific types of tooth, e.g. incisor, molar, fang, etc., and technical, medical terms.
• Use the generic term for all such types of (human) teeth. In languages that have no such generic term, but always distinguish front from back teeth (e.g. Basque), or incisors from molars, and so on, then select the most basic lexeme, usually the one for the frontmost teeth.