a. and sb. [See prec.]

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  A.  adj. Pertaining to or resembling the lophiodon; belonging to the family Lophiodontidæ.

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1864.  in Webster (citing Dana).

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1873.  Flower, in Proc. Roy. Instit. (1875), VII. 100. Another offset from the ancient Lophiodont stock … constitutes the family Tapiridæ.

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  B.  sb. An animal of the family Lophiodontidæ.

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1873.  Flower, in Proc. Roy. Instit. (1875), VII. 99. These Lophiodonts possess a dental character which distinguishes them from all other Perissodactyles.

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  Hence Lophiodontine, Lophiodontoid adjs., = LOPHIODONT a. Lophiodontous a., ‘having hairy or bristly teeth’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1889).

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1887.  E. D. Cope, in Amer. Nat., XXI. 994. It is impossible to separate the Hyracotheriine sub-family as a family from the Lophiodontine.

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1890.  Century Dict., Lophiodontoid.

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