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Coined by French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1942, from clino- + meg- + -odont.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
clinomegodont
Today it means: Being or having teeth with an elongated procumbent (forward-leaning) crown and asymmetrical median labial lobe, especially in rodents such as zokors. Full definition →