Usually means: Teeth primarily used for biting.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word canines:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. canines: Merriam-Webster
  2. canines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. canines: Vocabulary.com
  4. Canines, canine's, canines: Wordnik
  5. canines: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Canines (2): InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. canines: Wiktionary
  8. canines: Dictionary.com
  9. Canines: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Canines: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. canines: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  3. Canines: Medical dictionary

(Note: See canine as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (canine)

adjective:  Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
adjective:  Dog-like.
adjective:  (anatomy) Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
adjective:  (medicine, obsolete) Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.
noun:  Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
noun:  (formal) Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
noun:  In heterodont mammals, the pointy tooth between the incisors and the premolars; a cuspid.
noun:  (poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
▸ Also see canine


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