homodontism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]homodontism (uncountable)
- (zoology) Having a dentition of identical teeth.
- 1894, “Address by Henry Fairfield Osborn”, in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[1], volume 42, page 197:
- Now that all mammals are led back to a distant diphyodont stem, it is also true that the further we go back both in palingenesis and embryogenesis, the more widespread heterodontism is—all modern homodontism proving to be secondary.