hypsodonty

Noun

Meaning

The presence of hypsodont teeth.

The degree to which teeth are hypsodont; the degree to which they are not brachydont.

Examples

Many ungulates switched from browsing diets to grazing diets, and possibly driven by abrasive silica in grass, hypsodonty became common. Source: Internet

The development of hypsodonty has been of particular interest as this adaptation was strongly associated with the spread of grasslands during the Miocene about 25 million years. Source: Internet

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