Labyrinthodont

Definition of labyrinthodont:

part of speech: adjective

Having teeth with great complexity of dentine arrangement.

Usage examples for labyrinthodont:

• Labyrinthodont Foot- prints in Coal- measures. "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell.

• So that, at the present time, the Labyrinthodont Fauna of the Carboniferous rocks is more extensive and diversified than that of the Trias, while its chief types, so far as osteology enables us to judge, are quite as highly organized. "Critiques and Addresses", Thomas Henry Huxley.

• 3. The rarity in the deposits of animals of larger body size than Captorhinus, the exceptions being a few limb fragments and skull fragments of labyrinthodont or pelycosaurian nature. "Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma", Richard C. Fox.

• Remains of Labyrinthodont reptiles have also been met with in the same slate near Durham. "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell.