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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Being or having teeth with a nonelongated crown and symmetrical median labial lobe, especially in rodents such as zokors.

Etymology

Coined by French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1942, from ortho- + meg- + -odont.

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