prognathous
English
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[edit]prognathous (comparative more prognathous, superlative most prognathous)
- Having jaws that project forward more than is usual, or being such a jaw.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter VIII, in The Land That Time Forgot:
- A huge brute with thick lips and prognathous jaw stood at her shoulder. He was talking loudly and gesticulating wildly.
- 2013, Adam Slipinski, Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys[1]:
- Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.
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[edit]with jaws projecting forward
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