trilophodont

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English

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Etymology

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From tri- +‎ lophodont.

Adjective

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trilophodont (not comparable)

  1. Having three ridges or crests
    • 2016 January 13, “The Dance of Tusks: Rediscovery of Lower Incisors in the Pan-American Proboscidean Cuvieronius hyodon Revises Incisor Evolution in Elephantimorpha”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Moreover, for the first time in a formal cladistic analysis of non-amebelodontine trilophodont gomphotheres, Rhynchotherium and Cuvieronius were recovered as sister-taxa.
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