WordNet
n. the lower jawbone in vertebrates; it is hinged to open the mouth [syn: lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla, jawbone, jowl]
Usage examples of "lower jawbone".
An entire skull of a woman complete with lower jawbone, was placed on a rock and surrounded by a hundred and seventy shells of different sorts, some pierced, some not.
The dragon snuffled and blew and its lower jawbone scraped along the rock as it shifted its head, endeavoring to move into even deeper shadows.
At the east side of the hill, he came to a broken wall, with blast-broken crenellations like gray dragon's teeth rising from a bleached and monstrous lower jawbone.
The head and mouth, John Carter has told me, are similar to those of an earthly hippopotamus, except that from the flat sides of the lower jawbone, two mighty horns curve slightly downward toward the front.
Its head and mouth are similar in appearance to those of a hippopotamus, except that from the sides of the lower jawbone two mighty horns curve slightly downward toward the front.
It was simply the lower jawbone of an antelope, with the teeth still in place.