jawbone
颌骨,颚骨,颌骨的,锁骨
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Definitions
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- : a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
- : the bone of the lower jaw; mandible.
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jaw·boned, jaw·bon·ing.
- : Informal. to attempt to influence or pressure by persuasion rather than by the exertion of force or one's authority, as in urging voluntary compliance with economic guidelines: The president jawboned the steel industry into postponing price increases.
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- : Informal. obtained by or resorting to such a practice: jawbone controls.
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Lizard-like features include scales and teeth attached directly to the jawbones.
This would have left the jawbone flexible, the simulation showed.
Unlike mammals, reptiles and their close kin have a joint within their lower jawbone, or mandible.
The skull and face bones, including the jawbone, were still articulated.
Unlike mammals, reptiles and their close kin have a joint dubbed the intramandibular joint within their lower jawbone, or mandible.
Sure, your cubicle mate, neighbor, and aunt all own a Fitbit or JawBone fitness tracker.
Unlike the wrist-only Jawbone Up or Fitbit, the shoelace clip helps it recognize almost any movement.
You wear a FitBit Flex, Jawbone Up, or Nike Fuel Band on your wrist, and go about your normal day.
From my neck to my temples, there is a throbbing soreness on both sides of my face, all radiating from the hinge of my jawbone.
Then, like a twist in a pulp thriller, the jawbone washed up on shore in Aruba.
Think of Samson, who slew a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass!
I have known rich Jawbone Janes to travel half across the continent to harangue a poor bunch of striking hunyaks.