tooth powder

See also: toothpowder

English

Noun

tooth powder (countable and uncountable, plural tooth powders)

1. A powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice.
   • 1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household

     Precipitated calcium carbonate, a very fine powdery form, is used as a basis for many tooth powders and pastes. As whiting it finds a wide use in cleaning metals of their tarnishes.

Translations

a powder for cleaning the teeth

• Gujarati: દંતચૂર્ણ (dantcūrṇ)
• Irish: púdar fiacla m
• Latin: dentifricium n