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cyrtomatodont

cyrtomatodont adjective: hook-shaped, interlocking.

Adjective

cyrtomatodont (not comparable)

  1. Hook-shaped, interlocking.
    Antonyms:
    deltidiodont

Noun

cyrtomatodont (plural cyrtomatodonts)

  1. A knob- or hook-shaped hinge tooth on the shell of a brachiopod.
  2. A shell or organism with such dentition.
    • The deltidiodont morphology did not survive the end-Permian extinctions; the modern articulated brachiopod fauna is dominated by cyrtomatodonts with crurae and loops.2001, David Harper, Rong Jia-Yu, “Palaeozoic brachiopod extinctions, survival and recovery”, in Geological Journal, volume 36, page 317

Antonyms of cyrtomatodont

Forms of cyrtomatodont

pluralcyrtomatodonts

Origin of cyrtomatodont

See cyrto- / κυρτός (kurtós), -odont / ὀδούς (odoús).

Questions about cyrtomatodont

What does cyrtomatodont mean?
Cyrtomatodont means hook-shaped, interlocking.
What part of speech is cyrtomatodont?
Cyrtomatodont can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near cyrtomatodont in the dictionary

  1. cyrtoconical
  2. cyrtocrinid
  3. cyrtodontid
  4. cyrtodontids
  5. cyrtolite
  6. cyrtomatodont
  7. cyrtomatodonts
  8. cyrtophorian
  9. cyrtophorians
  10. cyrtophorid
  11. cyrtophorids

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