Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having teeth all alike, as a dolphin: opposed to heterodont.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to
heterodont .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having
teeth that are all of the same type
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Examples
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Like many animals assumed to have a homodont dentition,
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In Baryonyx, the teeth are basically homodont: small, very numerous, and slightly recurved.
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