heterodont

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having teeth of different types (like most mammals).

   “"On the Homologies and Notation of the Teeth of Mammalia," by W[illiam] H[enry] Flower, F.R.S. […] The classification and special homologies of the teeth of the heterodont mammals was next discussed.”

2. sıfat Of bivalves or their hinge teeth: having two to three wedge-shaped cardinal teeth set in the centre near the umbones, generally also with elongated lateral teeth on the anterior and posterior margins.

   “The heterodont arrangement is characteristic of the Venus clams and cockles.”

3. isim A heterodont animal.

   “[A]mongst heterodonts there are several Rodents which have no deciduous teeth, e.g., the rat; […] Among Marsupials, which are true heterodonts, there is only one milk molar on each side in each jaw; […]”

4. isim A heterodont bivalve.

   “Ordovician actinodontoids are probably ancestral to the heterodonts, unionaceans, and trigoniaceans.”

5. isim A snake of the genus Heterodon which is native to North America.

   “The second suborder (Macrosformes) corresponds with the Heteroderms of M. André Marie Constant Duméril. These are divided into seven families: […] 4. the Heterodonts, (Dendrophis, Coronella, &c.); […]”