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χαυλι^όδους , όδοντος, ὁ, ἡ, neut.
A.“-όδουν” Arist.PA661b23.
I. of animals, with outstanding teeth or tusks, κάπρος χ. (where most codd. χαυλιόδων, contr. to the rule of Hdn.Epim.208, that the correct forms are χαυλιόδους and χαυλιώδων), Hes.Sc.387, cf. Arist. l. c., 663a7; “χ. γένεθλα” Opp.C.3.6.
II. Subst., of projecting teeth, tusks, tushes, “ἔχει [ὁ κροκόδειλος] ὀδόντας μεγάλους καὶ χαυλιόδοντας” Hdt.2.68; τετράπουν χαυλιόδοντας φαῖνον, of the hippo-potamus, Id.2.71, cf. D.S.1.35; opp. καρχαρόδους, Arist.HA501a15, PA661b18, cf. HA538b21.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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