TEETHING
Dictionary entry overview: What does teething mean? • TEETHING (noun)
The noun TEETHING has 1 sense:
1. the eruption through the gums of baby teeth
Familiarity information: TEETHING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TEETHING (noun)
Meaning:
The eruption through the gums of baby teeth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
dentition; odontiasis; teething
Hypernyms ("teething" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teething"):
precocious dentition (teething at an earlier age than expected)
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