Heterodont vs. Diphyodont: What's the Difference?

(zootomy) Having teeth of different types (like most mammals).

Having two successive sets of teeth, deciduous and permanent.

(malacology) Of bivalves or their hinge teeth: having two to three wedge-shaped cardinal teeth set in the centre near the umbones, generally also with elongated lateral teeth on the anterior and posterior margins.

(anatomy) Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other.

(zoology) A heterodont animal.

Any creature with two successive sets of teeth.

(malacology) A heterodont bivalve.

Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; - opposed to monophyodont.

A snake of the genus Heterodon which is native to North America.

Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; - opposed to homodont.

Any animal with heterodont dentition.