Having teeth adapted for grinding or consuming soil-dwelling organisms.
From Greek edaphos (soil) + odont- (tooth). The compound describes specialized dental structures in animals that eat organisms found in soil.
Some burrowing animals have evolved specialized teeth specifically for grinding up the insects and worms they encounter while tunneling through soil—these are the edaphodonts of the animal world!
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