orthomegodont

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being or having teeth with a nonelongated crown and symmetrical median labial lobe, especially in rodents such as zokors.

Word forms

orthomegodont more orthomegodont most orthomegodont

Etymology

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

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