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trilophodont

trilophodont adjective: having three ridges or crests.

Adjective

trilophodont (not comparable)

  1. Having three ridges or crests
    • Moreover, for the first time in a formal cladistic analysis of non-amebelodontine trilophodont gomphotheres, Rhynchotherium and Cuvieronius were recovered as sister-taxa.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 trilophodont

From tri- + lophodont.

Questions about trilophodont

What does trilophodont mean?
Trilophodont means having three ridges or crests.
What part of speech is trilophodont?
Trilophodont is an adjective.

Words near trilophodont in the dictionary

  1. trilogy
  2. trilon
  3. trilons
  4. triloop
  5. triloops
  6. trilophodont
  7. trilophodonty
  8. trilophosaur
  9. trilophosaurid
  10. trilophosaurids
  11. trilophosaurs

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