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pachyodont

pachyodont adjective: having thick teeth.

Adjective

pachyodont (not comparable)

  1. Having thick teeth.
  2. Having hinge teeth with large obscure tubercules with corresponding pits on the opposite valve.
    • The pachyodont arrangement is characteristic of the Chamidae, the jewel boxes.

Noun

pachyodont (plural pachyodonts)

  1. An organism with teeth of this kind.

Forms of pachyodont

pluralpachyodonts

Origin of pachyodont

From pachy- + -odont.

Questions about pachyodont

What does pachyodont mean?
Pachyodont means having thick teeth.
What part of speech is pachyodont?
Pachyodont can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pachyodont in the dictionary

  1. pachymorph
  2. pachymorphs
  3. pachynema
  4. pachyneme
  5. pachyntic
  6. pachyodont
  7. pachyodonts
  8. pachyonychia
  9. pachyophiid
  10. pachyophiids
  11. pachyosteosclerosis

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