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What is a mandible?

What is a mandible? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The lower jaw, especially the lower jawbone.
  2. One of a pair of mouthparts of an arthropod, designed for holding food.
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The halecostomes, of which Amia is an example, have an opercular dilator muscle originating on the mandible which opens the operculum.
The bill is a pinkish horn color and dark markings appear on the upper mandible.
The first simulations involved static rigid-beam models, assuming the mandible to be nonflexible and muscles to contract isometrically.
In the mandible, there are, in front, four incisors, two canines, four premolars, and six molars behind.
Following the collection, the bees fly near the flower and move the resin ball from the mandible to one of the corbiculae.
Those muscles below the mandible are anatomically described as being above or below the hyoid bone.

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