Adjective

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having teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge

* {{quote-book

, year = 1871 , author = St. George Mivart , title = On the Genesis of Species , chapter = , edition = , url = http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20818 , passage = Pleurodont lizards are such as have the teeth attached by their sides {148} to the inner surface of the jaw, in contradistinction to acrodont lizards, which have the bases of their teeth anchylosed to the summit of the margin of the jaw. }}

* {{quote-journal

, date = 2001-03-09 , first = Richard O. , last = Prum , coauthors = et al. , title = Longisquama Fossil and Feather Morphology , journal = , issn = 0036-8075 , doi = 10.1126/science.291.5510.1899c , volume = 291 , issue = 5510 , pages = 1899-1902 , url = http://www.sciencemag.org/content/291/5510/1899.3.full , passage = The known skeletal remains of Longisquama'' lack any other diagnostic archosaurian characters [the furcula mentioned by Jones ''et al . consists of paired clavicles, as Sharov originally noted], but they exhibit two features, acrodont teeth and an interclavicle ( 3 ), that are typical of lepidosaurs. }}