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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In ornithology, having the under mandible longer than the upper, as the black skin.,ner, Rhynchops nigra: applied either to the bird or to its beak. Coues. See cut under Rhynchops.
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WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a projecting lower jaw
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- Ancient Greek from hypo- + -gnathous (Wiktionary)
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