A group or classification of snakes characterized by lacking grooved teeth.
From a- (without) + Greek glyphe (groove) + odont (tooth) + -a (plural/group suffix). Scientific taxonomic term grouping snakes sharing the aglyphodont tooth characteristic.
Herpetologists used to organize snakes into big categories based on their teeth alone—this group represented the 'everyman' snakes without any fancy venom-delivery system in their chompers.
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