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Webster 1913 Edition
Conodont
Co′no-dont
(kō′nō̍-dŏnt)
, Noun.
[Gr.
κῶνοσ
cone + ὀδούς
, ὀδόντος
, tooth.] (Zool.)
A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.