Definitions for bunodont

bunodont bu·no·dont

Spelling: [byoo-nuh-dont]
IPA: /ˈbyu nəˌdɒnt/

Bunodont is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in bunodont (bdnnootu).

Definitions for bunodont

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  1. having molar teeth with crowns in the form of rounded or conical cusps.

Origin of bunodont

1870-75; Greek boun(ós) hill + -odont

Examples for bunodont

The teeth are bunodont and brachydont, with the cusps not uniting to form lophs.

bunodont teeth are brachydont, the teeth of the Horse and Ox are hypsodont.

The bunodont type is best seen in Pigs and Hippopotami and such extinct forms as Hyotherium.

Homacodon is a genus consisting of several species, which has a bunodont and complete dentition.

In the Pigs and their allies the crowns are bunodont, while in the more highly specialised Ruminants the crowns are selenodont.

The teeth are bunodont or lophodont, the tendency to the production of the latter type being always marked.

The molars were bunodont or of a more cutting pattern, with some five or six tubercles.

This is the more remarkable seeing that Elotherium may be regarded as a kind of bunodont Anthracotherium.

Dental formula quite complete; the molars brachyodont and bunodont.

The bunodont molars, however, are Suine, as is the form of the lower jaw with a rounded angle.

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