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mandibula

UK/manˈdɪb.jʊl.ə/US/mænˈdɪb.jəl.ə/

mandibula is the obsolete form of mandible.

Meaning of mandible

Noun

mandible (plural mandibles)

  1. The jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.
    Synonyms:
    dentary, dentary bone, inferior maxillary bone, jawbone, lower jaw, submaxilla
  2. Either of the upper and lower segments of a bird's beak.
  3. Any of various invertebrate mouthparts serving to hold or bite food materials.
    1. One of the anterior pair of mouthparts of an arthropod, designed for holding and cutting food.

Forms of mandibula

pluralmandibulae

Origin of mandibula

Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin mandibula (“a jaw”), from mandō (“to chew, masticate”) + -bula (instrument noun suffix).

Words formed from mandibula

Words that rhyme with mandibula

Questions about mandibula

What is mandibula the obsolete form of?
Mandibula is the obsolete form of mandible.
How do you pronounce mandibula?
Mandibula is pronounced /manˈdɪb.jʊl.ə/ (UK).

Words near mandibula in the dictionary

  1. mandi
  2. Mandi District
  3. Mandia
  4. mandible
  5. mandibles
  6. mandibula
  7. mandibulae
  8. mandibular
  9. mandibular arteries
  10. mandibular artery
  11. mandibular canal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mandibula (page history and authors); mandible (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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