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homodontism

homodontism noun: having a dentition of identical teeth.

Noun

homodontism (uncountable)

  1. Having a dentition of identical teeth.
    • Now that all mammals are led back to a distant diphyodont stem, it is also true that the further we go back both in palingenesis and embryogenesis, the more widespread heterodontism is—all modern homodontism proving to be secondary.1894, “Address by Henry Fairfield Osborn”, in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, volume 42, page 197

Antonyms of homodontism

Origin of homodontism

From homodont + -ism.

Questions about homodontism

What does homodontism mean?
Homodontism means having a dentition of identical teeth.
What part of speech is homodontism?
Homodontism is a noun.

Words near homodontism in the dictionary

  1. homododecamer
  2. homododecameric
  3. homododecamers
  4. homodomain
  5. homodont
  6. homodontism
  7. homodonts
  8. homodonty
  9. homodox
  10. homodoxy
  11. homodromal

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