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loph·o·dont

(lof'ŏ-dont),
Having the crowns of the molar teeth formed in transverse or longitudinal crests or ridges, in contrast to bunodont.
[G. lophos, ridge, + odous, tooth]
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loph·o·dont

(lof'ŏ-dont)
Having the crowns of the molar teeth formed in transverse or longitudinal crests or ridges, as in the herbivores.
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lophodont

a tooth structure found in e.g. the rhinoceros, in which ridges used as grinding surfaces occur on the crowns of the molar teeth.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

loph·o·dont

(lof'ŏ-dont)
Having crowns of molar teeth formed in transverse or longitudinal crests or ridges.
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Colbert described these specimens as The teeth under study are lophodont because lophs are formed between protoconid and metaconid, hypoconid and entoconid.
Highly lophodont Listriodon pentapotamiae, and its synonym L.
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