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What is the adjective for jaws?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb jaw which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

jawed
  1. Having jaws.
  2. (in combination) Having a specified type of jaw.
  3. Examples:
    1. “At a quick glance, jawless fish such as the lamprey above don't appear to have much in common with jawed fish or any other back-boned creature.”
      “In modern classification schemes, living vertebrates consist of two main groups, the jawless Agnatha and the jawed Gnathostomata.”
      “One guy is tall, square jawed with even features and a full head of cutely tousled hair.”
jaw
  1. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump)
jaws
  1. (used in certain set phrases like jaws harp)
jawlike
  1. Resembling a jaw or some aspect of one.
jawy
  1. (obsolete) Relating to the jaws.
jawless
  1. Lacking a jaw.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The earliest fossil vertebrates belong to a group called the Agnatha or jawless vertebrates.”
      “Most jawless species went extinct long ago and are known only from the fossil record.”
      “In modern classification schemes, living vertebrates consist of two main groups, the jawless Agnatha and the jawed Gnathostomata.”
jawing
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