Meanings of powerful mandibles in anglès

With its powerful mandibles it bores a channel of exit, exactly round, with extremely clean-cut sides.

It was oblong, with jet-black compound eyes sticking out bulbously on either side and powerful mandibles in front.

They had powerful mandibles and mouths that could open extremely wide, indicating they used their teeth as gripping tools.

It feeds on all the inferior birds, but its principal food is the American Bunting, which it bears fluttering aloft in its powerful mandibles.

There were, besides, soldiers armed with powerful mandibles, who accompanied the workers for defence, and walked backwards and forwards near them without doing anything.

With its powerful mandibles, like pincers of steel, the grasshopper rarely fails to eviscerate its captive, which, being weaponless, can only shriek and struggle.

Powerful mandibles, shaped like an isosceles triangle, flat above, hollowed out below; and no indentations, none whatsoever.