ziphodont
Meanings
adj
- Laterally compressed, sharp, and with serrated edges
noun
- Any organism with teeth of this kind.
Word forms
Etymology
From a scientific name Crocodilus ziphodon coined by Othniel Charles Marsh (1871). Apparently from an alteration of xipho- + -odont.
Derived words
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