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   mandible

   /ˈmandɪbl/

   noun

   • 1. the jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.
   • ▪ either of the upper and lower parts of a bird's beak: "the drake is all black except for an orange mark on the upper mandible"
   • ▪ either half of the crushing organ in an arthropod's mouthparts.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin mandibula, from mandere ‘to chew’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. mandibular adjective
   • 2. mandibulate adjective

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