trilophodont

English

Etymology

tri- +‎ lophodont

Adjective

trilophodont (not comparable)

1. Having three ridges or crests
   • 2016 January 13, “The Dance of Tusks: Rediscovery of Lower Incisors in the Pan-American Proboscidean Cuvieronius hyodon Revises Incisor Evolution in Elephantimorpha”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Moreover, for the first time in a formal cladistic analysis of non-amebelodontine trilophodont gomphotheres, Rhynchotherium and Cuvieronius were recovered as sister-taxa.

Related terms

• trilophodonty