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jawed

[ UK /d‍ʒˈɔːd/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɔd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of animals having jaws of a specified type

How To Use jawed In A Sentence

  • Shaun Anthony Markey fled from Woolworth's store in Hereford with a battery-operated model of the chisel-jawed character, who features in the animated film Toy Story.
  • The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
  • The assembled opposition members, journalists and tourism industry heavies were slack-jawed.
  • Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
  • On Seventh Avenue, slack-jawed visitors scrambled for digital cameras, and taxicabs actually slowed down for something other than a fare.
  • A big-jawed and relatively small-brained hominid known as Paranthropus consumed mainly nuts and other hard foods, causing it to die out as these resources became scarce in African habitats.
  • The kids stand frozen and slack-jawed, mesmerized by the adults capering around in rented tutus.
  • The containing group of jawed vertebrates and jawless fishes is vertebrata. A New Book
  • Unlike all other jawed vertebrates, placoderms never had teeth, and did not descend from toothed ancestors.
  • If large body lengths are primitive for jawed fishes, which is also true for many placoderms, then a marked reduction in body size may have occurred with the origin of ray-finned fishes.
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