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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

脊齿的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jǐ chǐ de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Lophodont/ˈloʊ.fəˌdɒnt/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"大象拥有脊齿的磨牙用于研磨植物。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Having molars with the enamel forming transverse ridges or crests rather than rounded cusps.

    "Elephants and tapirs possess lophodont teeth, which are exceptionally well-suited for grinding tough plant material."
As noun
  1. 1

    An animal, such as certain herbivores, that possesses lophodont dentition.

    "The fossil record indicates that the prehistoric mammal was a lophodont specialized in a diet of leaves and twigs."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern Latin lophodontulus, combining the Greek lophos meaning 'crest' or 'ridge' and odous (stem odont-) meaning 'tooth'. Coined in the 19th century within evolutionary biology and paleontology to classify mammalian molar teeth featuring transverse ridges of enamel.

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