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noun

Mandible n.

(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.

(Zool.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not.

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Etymology of 'Mandible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mandible" Quotes from Famous Books

... americanus) will not be so great, nor felt so keenly, as the blotting out of the whooping crane. It so closely resembles the whistling swan that only an ornithologist can recognize the difference, a yellow spot on the side of the upper mandible, near its base. The whistling swan yet remains in fair numbers, but it is to be feared that soon it will go as the trumpeter ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

Words linked to "Mandible" : jowl, condylar process, mandibular notch, gnathion, gonion, jawbone, symphysion, condyloid process, articulator, mandibula, lower jawbone, lower jaw, pogonion, mandibular condyle, coronoid process of the mandible, mandibular bone