acrodont

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Etymology

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From acr- +‎ -odont.

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acrodont (not comparable)

  1. Having teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.
    • 1871, St. George Mivart, On the Genesis of Species[1]:
      Pleurodont lizards are such as have the teeth attached by their sides {148} to the inner surface of the jaw, in contradistinction to acrodont lizards, which have the bases of their teeth anchylosed to the summit of the margin of the jaw.
    • 2001 March 9, Richard O. Prum with et al., “Longisquama Fossil and Feather Morphology”, in Science[2], volume 291, number 5510, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1899–1902:
      The known skeletal remains of Longisquama lack any other diagnostic archosaurian characters [the furcula mentioned by Jones et al. consists of paired clavicles, as Sharov originally noted], but they exhibit two features, acrodont teeth and an interclavicle ( 3 ), that are typical of lepidosaurs.

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Noun

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acrodont (plural acrodonts)

  1. One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge

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