bunodont, a. and n.
(ˈbjuːnədɒnt)
[f. Gr. βουνός mound + ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς tooth.]
A. adj. Designating molar teeth whose crowns are elevated into tubercles; having tuberculate molars. B. n. A mammal with teeth of this pattern.
| 1874 E. D. Cope in Jrnl. Acad. Nat. Sci. VIII. 72 Bunodont type; crown supporting tubercles. Ibid. 73 The Bunodonts, except some Carnivora, are all of the former or isognathous type. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 429/2 The grinding surfaces of the molar teeth either of a distinctly tubercular (bunodont) or of a crescentic ridged (selenodont) form. 1902 Nature 25 Sept. 523 A series of six cheek-teeth, distinct and bunodont in type. 1969 Ibid. 22 Nov. 821/2 The Nagri suids..are low-skulled, with bunodont dentitions. |