Word.ws English Dictionary

perignathic

perignathic adjective: surrounding the jaws.

Adjective

perignathic (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding the jaws.

Origin of perignathic

From peri- + -gnathic.

Questions about perignathic

What does perignathic mean?
Perignathic means surrounding the jaws.
What part of speech is perignathic?
Perignathic is an adjective.

Words near perignathic in the dictionary

  1. perigloea
  2. periglomerular
  3. periglottal
  4. periglottic
  5. periglottis
  6. perignathic
  7. Perigo
  8. perigon
  9. perigonadal
  10. perigonadial
  11. perigonadic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: perignathic (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “perignathic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/perignathic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.