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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
pleurodont is a noun meaning "an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets". It carries one recorded sense.
an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pleurodont come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.