Mandible

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  • noun. The lower jaw of a vertebrate animal.
  • noun. Either the upper or lower part of the beak in birds.
  • noun. Any of various mouth organs of invertebrates used for seizing and biting food, especially either of a pair of such organs in insects and other arthropods.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Demandable.
  • noun. In zoöl, and anatomy, a jaw-bone; a jaw, or the jaw-bone and associate parts; especially, the under jaw.
  • noun. In polyzoans, an operculum.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.
  • noun. The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The lower jaw, especially the lower jawbone.
  • noun. One of a pair of mouthparts of an arthropod designed for holding food.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
  • Word Usage
    "Results presented call into question differences in mandible shape recently used to distinguish Gigantopithecus giganteus from Gigantopithecus blacki and to justify resurrecting a different generic designation, "Indopithecus," for the former."
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