lophid
English
Etymology
lopho- (“ridge”) + -id (“pertaining to”)
Adjective
lophid (not generally comparable, comparative more lophid, superlative most lophid)
- (zoology, palentology, archaeology, usually of teeth) Featuring or characterized by a crest or ridge.
- 2004, Gavin Prideaux, Systematics and Evolution of the Sthenurine Kangaroos, page 64:
- Similarities include minimal division of the paracristid and cristid obliqua, paucity of enamel crenulations on the lophid faces and, to a lesser degree, anterior turn of the lophid ends
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Noun
lophid (plural lophids)
- (zoology, palentology, archaeology) A ridge on molars or other teeth formed by a modification of cusps.
- 1967, David Whistler, Oreodonts of the Tick Canyon Formation, Southern California, page s.n.:
- There is a very small wear facet on the tip of the first lophid.
- 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel, Ardipithecus Kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, page 471:
- In early Elephantoidia, the mesial root supports only the first lophid of the molar.
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Anagrams
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