A long, pointed tooth, especially one used for biting or injecting venom in animals like snakes and vampires.
From Old English 'fang,' originally meaning 'a catch or seizing.' It evolved from Proto-Germanic roots related to 'catching' or 'grasping,' and over time came to specifically mean the teeth that do the catching and biting.
Fangs appear in mythology across cultures—from vampire stories to dragon legends—because they represent danger in the most visible way. The word itself comes from the idea of 'catching' prey, which perfectly describes what those teeth do.
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