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Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.

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  1. a. Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the thecodonts.
  3. n. One of the Thecodontia.
  4. n. presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds
  5. 1. (Anat.) Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws. 2. (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to the thecodonts. One of the Thecodontia.
  6. Having the teeth inserted in sockets in the alveoli of thejaws.
  7. n presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds