adjective
- Having teeth attached to the summit or edge of the jaw bone, without sockets (used in zoology to describe certain reptiles).
Usage: technical; zoology
noun
- A reptile, especially a lizard or snake, that has acrodont teeth.
Usage: technical; zoology
Examples
- Acrodont teeth are found in many species of agamid lizards.
- The chameleon is an example of an acrodont reptile.
- In acrodont dentition, the teeth are fused to the jaw ridge rather than set in sockets.
- Researchers classified the specimen as an acrodont based on its dental structure.
- Unlike thecodont teeth, acrodont teeth lack individual sockets.