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deltidiodont

deltidiodont adjective: simple in shape, not interlocking with the dental socket.

Adjective

deltidiodont (not comparable)

  1. Simple in shape, not interlocking with the dental socket.
    • The orthide billingsellaceans with their strophic hinge lines, deltidiodont dentition and invariably calcareous shells, comprise two families which, although morphologically similar, have a fundamentally different style of shell secretion, reflected in their various descendants.1979, Michael Robert House, The Origin of Major Invertebrate Groups, page 235
    • 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:
    cyrtomatodont

Noun

deltidiodont (plural deltidiodonts)

  1. A simple hinge tooth on the shell of a brachiopod.
  2. A shell or organism with such dentition.

Antonyms of deltidiodont

Forms of deltidiodont

pluraldeltidiodonts

Questions about deltidiodont

What does deltidiodont mean?
Deltidiodont means simple in shape, not interlocking with the dental socket.
What part of speech is deltidiodont?
Deltidiodont can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near deltidiodont in the dictionary

  1. deltic
  2. deltic acid
  3. Deltics
  4. deltidia
  5. deltidial
  6. deltidiodont
  7. deltidiodonts
  8. deltidium
  9. deltidiums
  10. deltiological
  11. deltiologist

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