Definition & Meaning | English word ZALAMBDODONT
ZALAMBDODONT
Definitions of ZALAMBDODONT
- A creature with teeth of this kind.
- (zoology) Having teeth with two ridges that meet at an angle, forming the letter lambda.
Number of letters
12
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ZALAMBDODONT in a Sentence
- These specimens of Yalkaparidon exhibit a melange of characters: the molars are zalambdodont (a distinctive tooth type also found in the marsupial mole Notoryctes, the living placental 'insectivores' Solenodon, tenrecs and golden moles, as well as a number of fossil groups); the incisors are very large and hypselodont (open-rooted and hence ever-growing, similar to those of rodents); the basicranial region of the only known skull is very primitive, somewhat similar to those of plesiomorphic bandicoots.
- Both genera have dilambdodont upper premolars (W-shaped crests on the crowns), one of the characteristics of pantodonts, but their upper molars, unlike in later pantodonts, are almost zalambdodont (V-shaped crests) and transversely elongated with the paracone and metacone (cusp) appressed or connated.
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