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单词 pleodont
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pleodontn.adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: pleo- comb. form, -odont comb. form.
Etymology: < pleo- comb. form + -odont comb. form, after French †Plédontes (plural noun), former group name ( A. M. C. Duméril & G. Bibron Erpétologie gén. (1839) V. 16). N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (plī·ŏdǫnt) /ˈpliːədɒnt/.
Zoology. Obsolete.
A. n.
A reptile having teeth that are solid rather than hollow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types
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1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 252/1 The Pleodonts are divided into two..groups: the first with a compressed tail..as in the Crocodiles; the other with the tail perfectly conical.
1875 Amer. Cycl. X. 551/2 The flat-tailed pleodonts or crocodilurians are among the largest of the family.
B. adj.
Of a reptile: having teeth that are solid rather than hollow. Cf. cœlodont adj. at cœlo- comb. form1 .
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1845 R. Owen Odontography I. ii. iv. 258 The maxillary teeth combine the pleodont with the acrodont characters.
1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. II. Zool. 276 All the species of pleodont lizards belong to the New World.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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