Mandible Definition

măndə-bəl
mandibles
noun
mandibles
The jaw.
Webster's New World
Either the upper or lower part of the beak in birds.
American Heritage Medicine
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.
American Heritage Medicine
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Other Word Forms of Mandible

Noun

Singular:
mandible
Plural:
mandibles

Origin of Mandible

  • Middle English from Old French from Late Latin mandibula from Latin mandere to chew

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin mandibula.

    From Wiktionary

Mandible Sentence Examples

  • The mandible is composed of several bones as in reptiles.

  • The operculum of the normal zooecium has become the mandible, while the occlusor muscles have become enormous.

  • They include the mandible of a mastodon and a portion of a vertebra of a large fish, both found in the Lower Madison Valley; the skull and other parts of a dog (Mesocyon drummondanus), found near Drummond, Granite county; the skull of a Poatrephes paludicola, found near New Chicago,.

  • Hinds believe that the paired piercers are the inner lobes of the maxillae, and the unpaired piercer the left mandible, the right mandible being absent.

  • Dentary movably attached to the tip of the articular bone of the mandible.

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