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in apersonoranimal, thelowerjawbone (人或动物的)下颚骨ininsects, one of the twopartsof themouthused forbitingandcuttingfood 喙(昆虫嘴的两部分之一,用于切断和撕咬食物)![picture of mandible picture of mandible](https://dictionary.cambridge.org//images/thumb/mandib_noun_002_22245.jpg?version=5.0.287) up close with nature/Moment Open/GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesBone structures - acetabular
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See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: The head & face The mouth & throat (Definition ofmandiblefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofmandiblemandible In each there are two small circular, transparent areas, opposite the mandibles.From theCambridge English Corpus The mouth-parts (fig. 2) consist of a labrum, maxillae and ligular area which border the preoral cavity, and the mandibles.From theCambridge English Corpus Both the labral and mandibular struts bear condyles for the articulation of the mandibles, which are somewhat bluntly pointed, and are without teeth.From theCambridge English Corpus Anterior to the mandibles, on the ventral edge of the clypeus, are two pairs of low, rounded papillae.From theCambridge English Corpus Of these, he says the second stage is without mandibles, and is of short duration, lasting about two or three days.From theCambridge English Corpus The mandibles were taken from frozen specimens, the heads of which were thawed for 10 min and the skin and underlying fat removed.From theCambridge English Corpus Neither the mandibles nor the maxillae bear the scraping and cutting that would be expected with defleshing.From theCambridge English Corpus The mandibles were all well articulated with the crania and the atlas vertebrae all still present.From theCambridge English Corpus The mandibles and scleromes of the mouth-parts are brown and prominent.From theCambridge English Corpus The mandibles are short and blunt, with their points anteriorly directed.From theCambridge English Corpus The only highly sclerotized parts of the head-capsule are the mandibles, which are elongate, curved, and unserrated.From theCambridge English Corpus The mandibles are about 0-025 mm. long, and sharply pointed.From theCambridge English Corpus The mandibles were left to dry for 2 days at room temperature.From theCambridge English Corpus First, the fact that ar ticulated mandibles and cervical ver tebrae were recovered along with the skulls indicates that the skulls were interred at least par tially ar ticulated.From theCambridge English Corpus Using additional skull measurement may have improved slightly the precision of these estimations, but to the detriment of sample sizes as mandibles were by far better preserved than skulls.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/mandible## |