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palaeodont

palaeodont is the alternative form of paleodont.

Meaning of paleodont

Noun

paleodont (plural paleodonts)

  1. An artiodactyl belonging to the suborder Paleodonta.
    • Artiodactyls first appear in the fossil record in the Eocene as small generalized creatures scarcely distinguishable from primitive insectivores or early carnivores. These were the paleodonts […]1960, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Forms of palaeodont

pluralpalaeodonts

Questions about palaeodont

What is palaeodont the alternative form of?
Palaeodont is the alternative form of paleodont.

Words near palaeodont in the dictionary

  1. palaeodistribution
  2. palaeodistributional
  3. palaeodistributions
  4. palaeodiversity
  5. palaeodoline
  6. palaeodont
  7. palaeodonts
  8. palaeodose
  9. palaeodoses
  10. palaeodosimetric
  11. palaeodrainage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palaeodont (page history and authors); paleodont (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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