English Explanatory Dictionary

clinomegodont

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being or having teeth with an elongated procumbent (forward-leaning) crown and asymmetrical median labial lobe, especially in rodents such as zokors.

Word forms

clinomegodont more clinomegodont most clinomegodont

Etymology

Coined by French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1942, from clino- + meg- + -odont.

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