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tetralophodont

tetralophodont adjective: having four ridges or crests to the teeth.

Adjective

tetralophodont (not comparable)

  1. Having four ridges or crests to the teeth
    • Black bars represent tetralophodont proboscideans; green bars represent dibelodont proboscideans and yellow bar represents tetrabelodont proboscideans (reversion/atavism).2016 January 13, “The Dance of Tusks: Rediscovery of Lower Incisors in the Pan-American Proboscidean Cuvieronius hyodon Revises Incisor Evolution in Elephantimorpha”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of tetralophodont

From tetra- + lophodont.

Questions about tetralophodont

What does tetralophodont mean?
Tetralophodont means having four ridges or crests to the teeth.
What part of speech is tetralophodont?
Tetralophodont is an adjective.

Words near tetralophodont in the dictionary

  1. tetralogy of Fallot
  2. tetralone
  3. tetralones
  4. tetraloop
  5. tetraloops
  6. tetralophodont
  7. tetralophodonty
  8. tetralophose
  9. tetraluminium
  10. tetralumino
  11. tetramagic

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