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Meaning of mandibulous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to the mandible.
  2. Having a pronounced lower jaw.

Examples

“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.”
“The mouth is seen to be a space intervening between the maxillary and mandibulous plates and is lined with epiblast.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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