brachyodont

British

/ ˈbrækɪəˌdɒnt /

adjective

(of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns

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Further, there is the modification of the latter from a short-crowned, or brachyodont type, to one in which the columns are tall, constituting the hypsodont, or hypsiselenodont, type.

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It has been maintained by many authors that a continuous series of forms connecting it with the four-toed, brachyodont Hyracothorid� of the Eocene has been discovered, and that here if anywhere a demonstrative historical proof has been obtained of the doctrine of organic evolution.

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