Associations to the word «Mandible»

Wiktionary

MANDIBLE, noun. The lower jaw, especially the lower jawbone.
MANDIBLE, noun. One of a pair of mouthparts of an arthropod designed for holding food.

Dictionary definition

MANDIBLE, noun. The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope