ziphodont

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Laterally compressed, sharp, and with serrated edges
noun
  1. Any organism with teeth of this kind.

Word forms

ziphodont ziphodonts

Etymology

From a scientific name Crocodilus ziphodon coined by Othniel Charles Marsh (1871). Apparently from an alteration of xipho- + -odont.

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