tetralophodont

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adjective

Having four ridges or crests to the teeth

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Meanings

adjectivetetralophodont (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving 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

From tetra- + lophodont.

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