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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
thecodont /ˈθiːkə(ʊ)dɒnt/

▶noun Palaeontology a Triassic fossil reptile of a group ancestral to dinosaurs and other archosaurs.

– origin C19: from mod. L. Thecodontia, from Gk thēkē ‘case’ + odous, odont- ‘tooth’ (because the teeth were fixed in sockets in the jaw).

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