acrodont

1. 1.

   an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets

   Broaderanimal

Other forms of acrodont

plural

acrodonts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acrodont

What does acrodont mean?

acrodont means "an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets".

How many syllables are in acrodont?

acrodont has 3 syllables: a-cro-dont. The stress falls on "a".

Is acrodont a common word?

acrodont is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.