Associations to the word «Mandible»

Wiktionary

MANDIBLE, noun. The lower jaw, especially the lower jawbone.
MANDIBLE, noun. One of a pair of mouthparts of an arthropod designed for holding food.

Dictionary definition

MANDIBLE, noun. The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne