lophid

English

Etymology

lopho- (ridge) + -id (pertaining to)

Adjective

lophid (not generally comparable, comparative more lophid, superlative most lophid)

  1. (zoology, palentology, archaeology, usually of teeth) Featuring or characterized by a crest or ridge.
    • 2004, Gavin Prideaux, Systematics and Evolution of the Sthenurine Kangaroos, page 64:
      Similarities include minimal division of the paracristid and cristid obliqua, paucity of enamel crenulations on the lophid faces and, to a lesser degree, anterior turn of the lophid ends

Noun

lophid (plural lophids)

  1. (zoology, palentology, archaeology) A ridge on molars or other teeth formed by a modification of cusps.
    • 1967, David Whistler, Oreodonts of the Tick Canyon Formation, Southern California, page s.n.:
      There is a very small wear facet on the tip of the first lophid.
    • 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel, Ardipithecus Kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, page 471:
      In early Elephantoidia, the mesial root supports only the first lophid of the molar.

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