tetrabelodont

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Adjective[edit]

tetrabelodont (not comparable)

  1. Having four lower incisors missing.
    • 2016 January 13, “The Dance of Tusks: Rediscovery of Lower Incisors in the Pan-American Proboscidean Cuvieronius hyodon Revises Incisor Evolution in Elephantimorpha”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Moreover, the tetrabelodont condition is also considered plesiomorphic to Elephantimorpha.