mandible.

1. The lower jawbone in a vertebrate.

2. One of a pair of jaws used for biting or processing food in many arthropods.

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Words that belong together

• fractured mandible
• human mandible

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The skull’s mandible lay a few inches from its teeth.

A wire held the damaged mandible in place.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular: mandible; plural: mandibles. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.