jawed
past simple and past participle ofjaw
jaw
verb[I]
informaluk/dʒɔː/us/dʒɑː/totalkfor alongtime:
He was jawingaway tohisgirlfriendforhourson thephone.
Synonyms
natterUKinformal
yackinformal
Informal talking & conversation
- badinage
- banter
- bantering
- bants
- bloviate
- bull session
- buzz
- catch
- catch up withsomeone
- chinwag
- chit-chat
- discourse
- exchange
- heart-to-heart
- intercourse
- pass
- ultra-casual
- understand
- vox pop
- word-of-mouth
Examplesofjawed
jawed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
These elements are homologous to the bones and cartilage of the primary jaw joint in non-mammalianjawedvertebrates.
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More space and energy is, therefore, taken up by axons in cephalopods as compared tojawedvertebrates.
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Molecular synapomorphies resolve evolutionary relationships of extantjawedvertebrates.
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Is that the case withjawedtraps that crush under water?
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Lampreys have seven gill pouches (whereasjawedfish have only five), no paired fins, and a rudimentary skeleton of cartilage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Placoderms were among the firstjawedfish; their jaws likely evolved from the first of their gill arches.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Placoderms are paraphyletic, and comprise several distinct outgroups or sister taxa to all livingjawedvertebrates, which originated among their ranks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The diversity ofjawedvertebrates may indicate the evolutionary advantage of ajawedmouth.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Homologous trochlear nerves are found in alljawedvertebrates.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ampullary receptors are ancestral tojawedfish, for lampreys and agnathans were found to have ampullary receptors 400 million years earlier.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In ancient seas jawless vertebrate fish led tojawedfish, and thence to all other vertebrates, including humans.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Among vertebrates, jaw-less armored fish (ostracoderms) declined in diversity, while thejawedfish (gnathostomes) simultaneously increased in both the sea and fresh water.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One such case is the radiation that gave rise to the tetrapods in the evolution ofjawedvertebrates.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Phylogenetic analysis demonstrates that the family of opioid receptors was already present at the origin ofjawedvertebrates over 450 million years ago.
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- put-sth-about-around
- put sth across
- put-sth-across
- put sth across/over sb
- put-sth-across-over-sb
- put sth aside
- put-sth-aside
- put sth at sth
- put-sth-at-sth
- put sth away
- put-sth-away
- put sth back
- put-sth-back
- put sth before sb
- put-sth-before-sb
- put sth behind you
- put-sth-behind-you
- put sth by
- cousin-brother
- cousin-sister
- cousin-sister
- couth
- couture
- couturier
- couverture