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Homodont

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Heterodont.

In anatomy, a heterodont (from Greek, meaning 'different teeth') is an animal which possesses more than a single tooth morphology and/or exhibit considerable size variation within the tooth row. Human dentition is heterodont and diphyodont as an example. Members of the Synapsida (including mammals) generally possess incisors, canines ("dogteeth"), premolars, and molars. The presence of heterodont dentition is evidence of some degree of feeding and or hunting specialization in a species. In contrast, homodont or isodont dentition refers to a set of teeth that possess the same tooth morphology.