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Mandible   Listen
noun
Mandible  n.  
1.
(Anat.) 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.
2.
(Zool.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not.





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"Mandible" Quotes from Famous Books



... I suppose, and never before noticed the sheath of his bill going over the front of the lower mandible that he may dig comfortably! But the others! the glory of velvet and silk and cloud and light, and black and tan and gold, and golden sand, and dark tresses, and purple shadows and moors and mists and ...
— Hortus Inclusus - Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days - to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston • John Ruskin
... indefatigable in his pursuit after subjects of natural history, shot a cockatoo, of a new species, hereabouts, having a singularly shaped upper mandible. It was white, with scarlet down under the neck feathers, smaller than the common cockatoo, and remarkable ...
— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt


Words linked to "Mandible" :   pogonion, mandibular notch, jawbone, mandibular condyle, condylar process, lower jaw, mandibular, lantern jaw, coronoid process of the mandible, mandibular bone, articulator, mandibula


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