Jawed - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: jawedLantern jawed
Having lantern jaws or long thin jaws as a lantern jawed person...
Jawed
Having jaws chiefly in composition as lantern jawed...
Jaw fall
Depression of the jaw hence depression of spirits...
Pig jawed
Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower with the upper incisors in advance of the lower said of dogs...
Gymnodont
One of a group of plectognath fishes Gymnodontes having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates on each jaw as the diodonts and tetradonts See Bur fish Globefish Diodon...
Hyomandibular
Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw as the hyomandibular bone or cartilage a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes...
Mandible
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...
Maxillar
Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw but now usually applied to the upper jaw only...
Pedicellaria
A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini Those of starfishes have two movable jaws or blades and are usually nearly or quite sessile those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel See Illustration in Appendix...
Baleen
Plates or blades of ldquowhalebonerdquo from two to twelve feet long and sometimes a foot wide which in certain whales Balaelignoidea are attached side by side along the upper jaw and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth...
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