xenodontine

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

xeno- +‎ -odont +‎ -ine

Adjective[edit]

xenodontine (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Belonging to a group of colubrid snakes with unusual teeth.
    • 2016 February 18, “Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes?”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      We characterized the skull morphology of 19 species of xenodontine snakes using geometric morphometric techniques, and used phylogenetic comparative methods to test the association between diet and skull morphology.

Noun[edit]

xenodontine (plural xenodontines)

  1. (zoology) Any snake of the subfamily Xenodontinae
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