hypostria

English

Etymology

From hypo- +‎ stria.

Noun

hypostria (plural hypostriae)

1. (paleontology) A vertical groove found between the protocone and the hypocone on the crowns of upper molariform teeth of glirans, i.e. rodents and lagomorphs.

Related terms

• hypostriid

Further reading

• Ruben Arthur Stirton (1935) A Review of the Tertiary Beavers, →OCLC, page 392