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from The Century Dictionary.
- Having lengthened crowns and short roots, the neck remaining long below the alveolar border of the socket: applied to such teeth as the molars of Bovidæ, in distinction from the brachyodont dentition of Cervidæ. See
brachyodont .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective dentistry Describing
teeth that have largecrowns (characteristic of herbivores) - noun Any
organism whose teeth have large crowns.
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