"heterodontism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1894, “Address by Henry Fairfield Osborn”, in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, volume 42, page 197:",
          "text": "Now that all mammals are led back to a distant diphyodont stem, it is also true that the further we go back both in palingenesis and embryogenesis, the more widespread heterodontism is—all modern homodontism proving to be secondary.",
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        "Having a dentition of differing teeth."
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          "dentition",
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          "teeth",
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        "(zoology) Having a dentition of differing teeth."
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  "word": "heterodontism"
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        "(zoology) Having a dentition of differing teeth."
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