mandible
mandible 英 [ˈmændɪbl] 美 [ˈmændəbəl]
n. 下颌骨；上颚，嘴的上部
名词复数:mandibles
- Do you know where your mandible is located? Your mandible is your jawbone. Without a mandible, you wouldn't be able to eat pizza.
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- n. 下颌骨；上颚，嘴的上部
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1. Discovering the jawbone (from the bear's left mandible) was an accomplishment in itself.
探索这个颚骨（取自这只熊的左下颌骨）本身就是一项成就。
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2. They are seeking to have westernized face, high profile nose, slender nice cheekbone, and mandible bone.
他们希望拥有西方人一样挺拔的鼻子，小巧精致的颧骨和下颌。
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3. Beak color gives away a kingfisher's gender: Males show mostly black, while females have an orange lower mandible that matches their feet.
喙的颜色可以用来区分翠鸟的性别：雄性的喙大部分是黑色，而雌性的下颌是橙色的，正好同它的脚相配。
- mandible (n.) late 14c., "jaw, jawbone," from Middle French mandible and directly from Late Latin mandibula "jaw," from Latin mandere "to chew," from PIE root *mendh- "to chew" (source also of Greek mastax "the mouth, that with which one chews; morsel, that which is chewed," masasthai "to chew," mastikhan "to gnash the teeth"). Of insect mouth parts from 1826.
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