a. [f. L. laniāri-us LANIARY a. + -FORM.] Shaped like laniary teeth.
1847–52. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 881/2. The office of the two laniariform teeth is to pierce and retain the prey.
1881. Owen, in Nature, XXIII. 523. The molars probably … all more or less laniariform.
