a. and sb. [See prec.]
A. adj. Pertaining to or resembling the lophiodon; belonging to the family Lophiodontidæ.
1864. in Webster (citing Dana).
1873. Flower, in Proc. Roy. Instit. (1875), VII. 100. Another offset from the ancient Lophiodont stock constitutes the family Tapiridæ.
B. sb. An animal of the family Lophiodontidæ.
1873. Flower, in Proc. Roy. Instit. (1875), VII. 99. These Lophiodonts possess a dental character which distinguishes them from all other Perissodactyles.
Hence Lophiodontine, Lophiodontoid adjs., = LOPHIODONT a. Lophiodontous a., having hairy or bristly teeth (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1889).
1887. E. D. Cope, in Amer. Nat., XXI. 994. It is impossible to separate the Hyracotheriine sub-family as a family from the Lophiodontine.
1890. Century Dict., Lophiodontoid.