jawed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of jawed
Example Sentences
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Within these refuges, jawed vertebrates appear to have held a crucial advantage.
From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026
While jawed fishes remained isolated in South China, jawless vertebrates continued to thrive elsewhere and dominated the open oceans for another 40 million years.
From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026
When Verse sacked Hurts in the second quarter, he lifted his arms, skipped off the field and jawed with fans behind the Rams bench.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025
“They very convincingly show that all living jawed vertebrates have synovial joints,” says Gage Crump, a developmental biologist at the University of Southern California who was not involved with the work.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 25, 2024
I was slack jawed, immobile and helpless, frozen in the grass.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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