baby tooth
IPA: bˈeɪbitˈuθ
noun
- a tooth which will be replaced as a child ages, as opposed to an adult permanent tooth; a milk tooth
Examples of "baby-tooth" in Sentences
- 10 December 2010 8:30PM poor children today are far more likely to suffer from severe baby-tooth decay "caused by frequent or prolonged use of baby bottles that contain milk, sugared water, fruit juice or other sugary beverages".
- At this precise moment in time I am so love with Baby Him, with his soft, pale curls and his baby-tooth grin and his chubby baby bum and his tiny, grabby fists that clutch and hold and cling and the fact that I can press him to me and just hold, just hold on and breathe him in and pretend that we are still two pieces of one body, that I could, if I wanted to, press him back into my chest to beat as my own heart.