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Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.
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An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.
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Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.
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Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.
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Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.
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An insect having mandibles.
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Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.
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The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.
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A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.
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Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo-mandibular nerve.
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Alt. of Mandibulated
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The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.
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Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.
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Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
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Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.
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