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Meanings of lower mandible in English

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Usage of lower mandible in English
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Rojka's upper and lower mandible armor shifted as he spoke to her.
Envoy
2
A needle must be stuck into the lower mandible perpendicularly.
Wanderings in South America
3
It has a straight and stout lower mandible and a slender, arched upper one.
BBC
4
A novel, seemingly spontaneous augmentation of the soft lower mandible.
The strain
5
They kept their bills wide open, and the lower mandible half buried in the water.
The Voyage of the Beagle
6
The edges of the lower mandible are crossed by numerous fine ridges, which project very little.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
7
The beak is flattened laterally, and the lower mandible is an inch and a half longer than the upper.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
8
The Maher Mouth Guard holds the jaw so that vibrations don't transmit from the lower mandible to the skull.
Wired
9
The peculiarity of their beak consists in the lower mandible being considerably longer than the other into which it shuts.
In the Wilds of Florida: A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
10
The edges of the lower mandible are serrated with teeth much more prominent, coarser and sharper than in the duck.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
11
The development of the carunculated skin or wattle round the eyes, over the nostrils, and on the lower mandible, is prodigious.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume...
12
Bill, which is as tong as head, arched, acute, and more robust than the black-billed species, and with lower mandible yellow.
Bird Neighbors / An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred a...
13
When one of the vulture-like heads was cut off from the cell, the lower mandible retained its power of opening and closing.
The Voyage of the Beagle
14
The bills of the true falcons are stronger, and have a notch in the lower mandible answering to a tooth in the upper one.
The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North
15
In the upper and lower mandibles.
The bourne ultimatum
16
Thel scratched his lower mandibles.
The Cole Protocol
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