pleurodont

1. 1.

   an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets

   Broaderanimal

Other forms of pleurodont

plural

pleurodonts·

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 pleurodont

What does pleurodont mean?

pleurodont means "an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets".

How many syllables are in pleurodont?

pleurodont has 4 syllables: ple-u-ro-dont. The stress falls on "u".

Is pleurodont a common word?

pleurodont is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.