bunodont

[ byoo-nuh-dont ]

/ ˈbyu nəˌdɒnt /

having molar teeth with crowns in the form of rounded or conical cusps.

Compare lophodont.

Origin of bunodont

1870–75; < Greek boun(ós) hill + -odont

This is the more remarkable seeing that Elotherium may be regarded as a kind of bunodont Anthracotherium.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 |Various
Bunodont teeth are brachydont, the teeth of the Horse and Ox are hypsodont.

The Vertebrate Skeleton |Sidney H. Reynolds
The teeth are bunodont or lophodont, the tendency to the production of the latter type being always marked.

The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia |Frank Evers Beddard
The teeth are bunodont and brachydont, with the cusps not uniting to form lophs.

Speciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii |Henry W. Setzer

The bunodont type is best seen in Pigs and Hippopotami and such extinct forms as Hyotherium.

The Vertebrate Skeleton |Sidney H. Reynolds

bunodont

/ (ˈbjuːnəˌdɒnt) /

(of the teeth of certain mammals) having cusps that are separate and rounded

from Greek bounos hill + -odont