carnassial

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Creodont fossils have long, narrow skulls similar in shape to a coyote’s, and carnassial molars, which cut through meat and bone like a pair of sharp scissors.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

Some modern carnivores also have carnassial teeth; evolution resulted in teeth adapted to do the same task for both groups, although they are not related.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

The second is strong and essentially carnassial; it is compressed laterally and obliquely placed.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

This tooth is called the sectorial, or carnassial.

From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various

Further, you know from experience that such and such definitely modified organs are invariably found with the carnivorous habit, carnassial teeth, for example, and reduced clavicles.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell