(of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh; "the carnassial teeth of carnivores"
Carnassials are large teeth found in many carnivorous mammals, used for shearing flesh and bone in a scissor- or shear-like way. In the Carnivora, the carnassials are the modified last upper premolar and the first lower molar, but in the prehistoric creodonts, the carnassials were further back in the jaw?first upper and second lower or second upper and third lower molars.
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