Homodontism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Having a dentition of identical teeth. uncountable

    "Now that all mammals are led back to a distant diphyodont stem, it is also true that the further we go back both in palingenesis and embryogenesis, the more widespread heterodontism is—all modern homodontism proving to be secondary."

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"Now that all mammals are led back to a distant diphyodont stem, it is also true that the further we go back both in palingenesis and embryogenesis, the more widespread heterodontism is—all modern homodontism proving to be secondary."

Etymology

From homodont + -ism.

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