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Definition of Thecodont
1. Noun. Presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds.
Generic synonyms: Archosaur, Archosaurian, Archosaurian Reptile
Group relationships: Order Thecodontia, Thecodontia
Definition of Thecodont
1. a. Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.
2. n. One of the Thecodontia.
Definition of Thecodont
1. Noun. (paleontology archaic) Any of the Thecodontia (a former group of archosaurs). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thecodont
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Thecodont
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thecodont
Literary usage of Thecodont
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1855)
"... and other fish of the marl-slate — thecodont Saurians of dolomitic conglomerate
of Bristol ... thecodont ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"After quoting the description of the femur by the discoverers of the present
thecodont reptiles, Professor Owen remarks that the tibia, fibula, ..."
3. History of the Human Body by Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1909)
"teeth are inserted by what is termed a thecodont articulation into deep pits ...
In thecodont teeth, however, the latter come up through the bottom of the ..."
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