lower jawbone

Questions about lower jawbone

What does lower jawbone mean?

lower jawbone means "the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth".

What is another word for lower jawbone?

Close synonyms include lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lower jawbone a common word?

lower jawbone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.