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lophid

lophid adjective: featuring or characterized by a crest or ridge.

Adjective

lophid (not generally comparable, comparative more lophid, superlative most lophid)

  1. (error-misspelling, not comparable, usually) Featuring or characterized by a crest or ridge.
    • Similarities include minimal division of the paracristid and cristid obliqua, paucity of enamel crenulations on the lophid faces and, to a lesser degree, anterior turn of the lophid ends2004, Gavin Prideaux, Systematics and Evolution of the Sthenurine Kangaroos, page 64

Noun

lophid (plural lophids)

  1. (error-misspelling) A ridge on molars or other teeth formed by a modification of cusps.
    • There is a very small wear facet on the tip of the first lophid.1967, David Whistler, Oreodonts of the Tick Canyon Formation, Southern California, page s.n.
    • In early Elephantoidia, the mesial root supports only the first lophid of the molar.2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Giday WoldeGabriel, Ardipithecus Kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, page 471

Forms of lophid

Adjective
comparativemore lophid
superlativemost lophid
Noun
plurallophids

Origin of lophid

From lopho- (“ridge”) + -id (“pertaining to”).

Words formed from lophid

Questions about lophid

What does lophid mean?
Lophid means featuring or characterized by a crest or ridge.
What part of speech is lophid?
Lophid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near lophid in the dictionary

  1. loph
  2. lophate
  3. lophenol
  4. lophialetid
  5. lophialetids
  6. lophid
  7. lophids
  8. lophiid
  9. lophiids
  10. lophiiform
  11. lophiiforms

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