acrodont
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English
Etymology
Adjective
acrodont (not comparable)
- Having teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.
- 1871, St. George Mivart, On the Genesis of Species:
- 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, volume 291, number 5510, , →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.
Derived terms
Translations
having teeth united to the top of the alveolar ridge
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See also
Noun
acrodont (plural acrodonts)
- One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge
References
- “acrodont”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.