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xenodontine

xenodontine adjective: belonging to a group of colubrid snakes with unusual teeth.

Adjective

xenodontine (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to a group of colubrid snakes with unusual teeth.
    • We characterized the skull morphology of 19 species of xenodontine snakes using geometric morphometric techniques, and used phylogenetic comparative methods to test the association between diet and skull morphology.2016 February 18, “Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Noun

xenodontine (plural xenodontines)

  1. Any snake of the subfamily Xenodontinae

Forms of xenodontine

pluralxenodontines

Origin of xenodontine

From xeno- + -odont + -ine.

Questions about xenodontine

What does xenodontine mean?
Xenodontine means belonging to a group of colubrid snakes with unusual teeth.
What part of speech is xenodontine?
Xenodontine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near xenodontine in the dictionary

  1. xenodochium
  2. xenodochiums
  3. xenodochy
  4. xenodollar
  5. xenodollars
  6. xenodontine
  7. xenodontines
  8. xenoembryo
  9. xenoembryos
  10. xenoencyclopedia
  11. xenoencyclopedias

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