Mandibulous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Mandibulous is an adjective meaning Pertaining to the mandible.
Meaning
Pertaining to the mandible.
More Meanings
- Having a pronounced lower jaw.
Example Sentences
The mouth is seen to be a space intervening between the maxillary and mandibulous plates and is lined with epiblast.
Near its termination there may be observed, as in the mandibulous hook of spiders, a very minute orifice, or, according to some authors, two distinct fissures.
Ahead of them a group of mandibulous sales men had set up their combustion cups and incendiary ratchets to demonstrate their wares to whatever officers might come by.
Some months ago casts came to me from a friend in England, one showing six incisors in the deciduous mandibulous dentition of a child of about six years of age, and the other showing six incisors in the permanent dentition of the same patient at, I think, eighteen or twenty years of age.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mandibular, mandibulary, mandibulofacial, musculomandibular, micromandibular, mandibulopharyngeal.
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