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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lab•y•rin•tho•dont (lab′ə rin′thə dont′),USA pronunciation n. - Paleontologyany member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
adj. - Paleontologyhaving teeth with complexly infolded enamel surfaces.
- Paleontologybelonging to or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta.
- Neo-Latin Labyrinthodonta, equivalent. to Greek labýrinth(os) labyrinth + -odonta, neuter plural of -odontos -odont
- 1840–50
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