Crossword-Solution: PLEURODONT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pleurodont | a. | Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw, as in some lizards. |
| Pleurodont | n. | Any lizard having pleurodont teeth. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “PLEURODONT”
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| with teeth attached to the inside of the jawbone, rather than rooted in it | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PLEURODONT (5)
Pleurodont lizards are such as have the teeth attached by their sides {148} to the inner surface of the jaw, in contradistinction to acrodont lizards, which have the bases of their teeth anchylosed to the summit of the margin of the jaw.
Now pleurodont iguanian lizards abound in the South American region; but nowhere else, and are not as yet known to inhabit any part of the present continent of Africa.
They are always slender, pleurodont denticles arranged in a single row on the jaws or as tubercular eruptions on the palate bones, with a large pulp-cavity and the enamel often striated.
The dentary always bears a single row of pleurodont teeth, which may vary greatly in size and number.
There are no teeth preserved on the fragment of the maxilla, but there are some impressions farther forward which resemble the pleurodont denticles of the modern Amphibia.