Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having large teeth.
  • In craniometry, having a dental index of more than 44.

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  • adjective Having large teeth

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Examples

  • First, when Anderson is flung around by a megadont in the beginning, we never hear again about his injuries.

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  • Theirs was a good friendship, and a fruitful one, when Lalji had unstamped calories that needed to disappear into the mouth of a hungry megadont.

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  • Beyond the garden a house lay collapsed, leaning as though it had been toppled by a megadont, its walls rammed and buckled.

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  • The AgriGen woman had hung the sign on her wall like the head of a trophy megadont and in that moment, next to a representative of the most powerful energy company in world, Lalji had felt a sudden sadness at how very diminished humanity had become.

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  • When crushed and deformed by rocks falling on the bones P. aethiopicus was introduced in 1968 it was the only before they were fully fossilized. megadont hominin in this time range.

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  • I expected the megadont union to play some part, since it was mentioned rather often early on, but didn’t.

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