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Mandible

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The lower jaw of a vertebrate animal.

n. Either the upper or lower part of the beak in birds.

n. 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.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The lower jaw, especially the lower jawbone.

n. One of a pair of mouthparts of an arthropod designed for holding food.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. 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.

n. The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In zoöl, and anatomy, a jaw-bone; a jaw, or the jaw-bone and associate parts; especially, the under jaw.

Demandable.

n. In polyzoans, an operculum.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. 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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

articulator jaw

Cross Reference

dentate mandible multidentate mandible

Variant

diptera

Hyponym

lantern jaw

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

jawbone inferior maxillary bone dentary bone submaxilla

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

expandable understandable

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

maxilla scapula mandibular clavicle tibia