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from The Century Dictionary.
- Having some of the posterior teeth in the upper jaw grooved, as in certain poisonous snakes; opisthoglyphic.
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teeth include an enlarged pair at the back of themaxillae which normally angle backwards and aregrooved to channelvenom into thepuncture .
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