Etymology

lophulid

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Today it means: A small crest on a tooth Full definition →

Ancient Greek λόφος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromλόφος“crest, ridge”
  2. English todaylophulid

From Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos, “crest, ridge”) + -ule + -id.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekλόφος all →

lophlopho-lophobranchlophosteon

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.