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from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, having both mandibles of equal length, their tips falling together: said of the beaks of birds, and of the birds themselves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology having both
mandibles of equal length, with thetips meeting, as in certainbirds
Etymologies
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para- + -gnathous
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