fang

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fang/faŋ/

▶noun a large sharp tooth, especially a canine tooth of a dog or wolf.

■ a tooth with which a snake injects poison.

■ the biting mouthpart of a spider.

– derivatives
fanged adjective,
fangless adjective.

– origin OE (denoting booty or spoils): from ON fang ‘capture, grasp’; cf. vang.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Fang /faŋ/ (also Fan)

▶noun (pl. same or Fangs)

• 1 a member of a people inhabiting parts of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.

• 2 the Bantu language of the Fang.

– origin Fr., prob. from Fang Pangwe.