Sentence examples for mandible from inspiring English sources

One oddity is the bill of skimmers, in which the upper mandible is streamlined in cross section and laterally compressed.

The sharp upper edge of the lower mandible fits into a groove in the upper when the bill is closed.

The external jugular vein is formed by the union of its tributaries near the angle of the lower jaw, or mandible.

In all neuropteran species each jaw is a sucking tube, created by the mandible above and maxilla below, with the two fitting together but separable.

When the mandible strikes a fish or shrimp, the head doubles under the body and the bill clamps shut.

Glands in the mandible and cloaca excrete oily chemicals that have a poorly understood function in communication.

Detachment of the three middle-ear bones from the mandible occurred during the transition between reptiles and mammals.

The lower mandible is knifelike and protrudes well beyond the upper.

In the adult the mandible loses one of the branches, sometimes retaining the other as a palp, and the base can develop into a powerful jaw.

(The burying beetles tap their parents' mandibles).For a long time such signals have been considered honest at least by childless zoologists.

These larvae have short legs and mandibles.