bicuspid

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: bi=cus=pid

CIDE DICTIONARY

bicuspid, a. [See pref. Bi-, and Cuspidate.].

 Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.  [1913 Webster]

bicuspid, n. 

 One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bicuspid, adj. & n.
--adj. having two cusps or points.
--n.
1 the premolar tooth in humans.
2 a tooth with two cusps.

Derivative

bicuspidate adj.

Etymology

BI- + L cuspis -idis sharp point

THESAURUS

bicuspid

baby tooth, biaxial, bicameral, bifid, biform, binocular, binomial, binominal, bipartite, biped, bipetalous, bipinnate, bisexual, bivalent, bucktooth, canine, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, dental, denticle, denticulation, dentiform, dentil, dentition, dentoid, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fanged, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, incisor, milk tooth, molar, odontoid, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, premolar, scrivello, snag, snaggle-toothed, snaggled, snaggletooth, tooth, toothed, toothlike, toothy, tush, tusk, tusked, unibivalent, wisdom tooth

ROGET THESAURUS

bicuspid

bisection

N bisection, bipartition, dichotomy, subdichotomy, halving, dimidiation, bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication, fork, prong, fold, half, moiety, bisected, cloven, cleft, bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid, bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated, distichous, dichotomous, furcular, semi-, demi-, hemi.