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单词 under-jaw
释义

under-jawn.

Brit. /ˈʌndədʒɔː/, U.S. /ˈəndərˌdʒɔ/, /ˈəndərˌdʒɑ/
Etymology: under- prefix1 2b(b).
The lower jaw or mandible.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [noun] > lower
lower or under (nether) jaw1509
under-chap1584
under-jaw1687
chap1830
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 22 Mahomet the second having taken Constantinople,..beat off the under jaw of one of those heads.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xxxviii. 133 Touching his under jaw with the thumb.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 91 The under jaw in a Chinese face falls greatly more backward than with us.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xii. 238 The retired under jaw of a swine.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 329 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV [The female trout] has a less-projecting under-jaw.
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