Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having the teeth attached by their sides to the inner side of the jaw, as in some lizards.
- n. A lizard with pleurodont teeth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Ankylosed to the side of the socket, as teeth; laterally fixed in the jaw: distinguished from acrodont.
- Having or characterized by pleurodont teeth or dentition, as a lizard; belonging to the Pleurodontes; not acrodont: as, a pleurodont reptile.
- n. A pleurodont lizard; a member of the Pleurodontes.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Having the teeth fused (ankylosed) by their sides to the inner surface of the jawbones.
- n. zoology Any lizard with teeth of this kind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Anat.) Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw, as in some lizards.
- n. (Zoöl.) Any lizard having pleurodont teeth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets
Examples
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“Now pleurodont iguanian lizards abound in the South American region; but nowhere else, and are not as yet known to inhabit any part of the present continent of Africa.”
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Lists
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A Posy of pleur Terms
A list of words that begin with or contain the string pleur.
Some of the medical terms and conditions listed here aren't all that pretty.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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chained_bear "...the lizard, having been stared at for twenty minutes, suddenly lost its head, rushed up the tree, fell together with a long strip of loose bark, stood open-mouthed, defying them for a moment, and then raced away over the grass, high on its short legs.
'He was a pleurodont,' said Martin.
'So he was. And he had a forked tongue, too: one of the monitory kind, for sure.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 334 Mar 8, 2008