Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having two successive sets of teeth, deciduous and permanent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two sets of teeth, as a mammal; growing in two sets, as teeth: applied both to the system of dentition and to the animals which have such a system: opposed to monophyodont and polyphyodont. See II.
- noun A mammal which has two sets of teeth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; ; -- opposed to
monophyodont .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Having two
successive sets ofteeth (deciduous andpermanent ), one succeeding the other. - noun Any creature with two successive sets of teeth.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Greek diphuēs, double (di-, two; see di–) + phuein, to grow; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots + –odont.]
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Ancient Greek διφυής (diphuēs, "double") + ὀδόντος (odontos) (genitive of ὀδούς (odous, "tooth")).
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