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What does jawed mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word jawed? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having jaws.
  2. (in combination) Having a specified type of jaw.
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The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
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.
One guy is tall, square jawed with even features and a full head of cutely tousled hair.
In contrast, people and other jawed vertebrates brandish adaptive immune systems.
The first jawed fish in the fossil record are the acanthodians, which first occur in the Late Silurian.
For example, it is possible that the brainstem reticular formation is divided into the same number of nuclei in all jawed vertebrates.

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