trilophodont

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adjective

Having three ridges or crests

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Meanings

adjectivetrilophodont (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving 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

From tri- + lophodont.

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Chicago

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