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desmodont

The English word “desmodont” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any of a group of South American blood-sucking bats of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla.

adjective

  1. Of hinge teeth: having a large ligamentous resilifer (or chondrophore) which replaces the cardinal teeth.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δεσμός (desmós, “band, connection”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”).

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