Crossword-Solution: DIPHYODONT
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| Diphyodont | a. | Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; -- opposed to monophyodont. |
| Diphyodont | n. | An animal having two successive sets of teeth. |
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| having a second set of teeth that replaces the first | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
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Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DIPHYODONT (5)
The majority of mammals are diphyodont, though the number of teeth replaced may vary: thus in man twenty teeth of the adult are preceded by a milk set.
Hertwig.) A very general feature of the teeth of the Mammalia is what is usually termed the diphyodont dentition.
But even the purely monophyodont dentition of the Toothed Whales is a more apparent than real contrast to the diphyodont dentition elsewhere prevalent.
These two extremes of dentition, _i.e._ purely monophyodont and, excepting for the molars, purely diphyodont, are however connected by an intermediate state of affairs, which is represented by more than one stage.
Since then other Armadillos have been shown to be diphyodont; and the whole group therefore, so far as concerns those members that have teeth, may in all probability be regarded as typically mammalian in this respect.