jaw-bone
61flat bone — n any of various bones (as of the skull, the jaw, the pelvis, or the rib cage) not rounded in cross section * * * os planum …
62inferior maxillary bone — n JAW (1b) …
63flat bone — noun part of the sirloin next to the wedge bone • Hypernyms: ↑cut of beef • Part Holonyms: ↑sirloin * * * noun : any of various bones (as of the skull, the jaw, the pelvis, or the rib ca …
64pterygoid bone — noun : a horizontally placed often more or less rodlike bone or group of bones of the upper jaw or roof of the mouth in most lower vertebrates connecting the palatine in front and the quadrate behind and forming part of the palatoquadrate arch …
65quadrate bone — quadrate bone, one of the pair of bones in birds, fishes, amphibians, and reptiles that joins the lower jaw to the skull …
66whale|bone — «HWAYL BOHN», noun. 1. an elastic, horny substance growing in place of teeth in the upper jaw of certain whales and forming a series of thin, parallel plates; baleen. 2. a thin strip of this used for stiffening corsets and dresses …
67rubber jaw — a type of osteoporosis in dogs and cats with softening of the jaws, resorption, and replacement of the bone by fibrous tissue, occurring in association with renal osteodystrophy …
68whale·bone — /ˈweılˌboʊn/ noun [noncount] : a hard substance that is found in the jaw of some types of whales …
69jawbone — jaw•bone [[t]ˈdʒɔˌboʊn[/t]] n. v. boned, bon•ing 1) anat. zool. any bone of a jaw, esp. a mandible 2) inf to influence by persuasion, esp. by public appeal • Etymology: 1480–90 jaw′bon ing, n. adj …
70jawbone — jaw·bone jȯ bōn, .bōn n JAW (1) esp MANDIBLE …
