conulid
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The diminutive infix -ule added to conid.
Noun
[edit]conulid (plural conulids)
- (dentistry) A minor cusp on a lower tooth.
- 1987, Rajan Gaur, Environment and ecology of early man in northwest India:
- This high crowned tooth presents a complex pattern of conids, conulids, accessory tubercles and valleys.
- 1989, Kent Hubbard Redford, John Frederick Eisenberg, Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy, page 15:
- An anterolophid and anterostylid may be present between the metaconid and anterolingual conulid.
- 1996, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, page 312:
- One lower molar specimen (MNHN-Bol-V 3471; Fig. 4d) also has a strange conulid at the center of the talonid basin. Although this conulid is moderately worn, it seems to have no significant function in mastication.