Crossword-Solution: BRACHYODONT
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| of mammals, such as humans, having teeth with short crowns | 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
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BRACHYODONT (5)
Further, there is the modification of the latter from a short-crowned, or brachyodont type, to one in which the columns are tall, constituting the hypsodont, or hypsiselenodont, type.
The primitive Artiodactyla thus probably had the typical number (44) of incisor, canine and molar teeth, brachyodont molars, conical odontoid process, four distinct toes on each foot, with metacarpal, metatarsal and all the tarsal bones distinct, and no frontal appendages.
The varying proportions of these two regions of the tooth enables us to divide teeth into two series--the brachyodont and the hypselodont; in the latter the crown is developed at the expense of the root, which is small; the hypselodont tooth is one that grows from a persistent pulp or, at any rate, one that is long open.
The genus may be distinguished by the exceedingly brachyodont molars, this feature being more marked in this genus than in all other Squirrels.
Its principal difference from the other genera of Flying Squirrels is that the molars are hypselodont instead of brachyodont.