mandibulous

English

Etymology

mandible + -ous

Adjective

mandibulous (comparative more mandibulous, superlative most mandibulous)

  1. Pertaining to the mandible.
    • 1836, Robert Bentley Todd, The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology - Volume 1, page 209:
      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.
    • 1883, Harrison Allen, A System of Human Anatomy: Bones and joints, page 769:
      The mouth is seen to be a space intervening between the maxillary and mandibulous plates and is lined with epiblast.
    • 1898, Dental Review - Volume 12, page 7:
      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.
  2. Having a pronounced lower jaw.
    • 2013, Charles Morgan, Youthful Folly, →ISBN, page 94:
      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.
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