Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A condition of a horse's mouth in which the upper incisor teeth become long and overlap the lower incisors: seen usually in old horses.
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Examples
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In the _parrot-mouth_, the wear occurs on the posterior face of the superior and the anterior face of the inferior incisors, the teeth becoming worn to rather a sharp edge, depending on the degree of the deformity.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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-- The common deformities of the jaw and teeth are the overshot or parrot-mouth, the undershot or lantern-jaw, and the scissor-mouth.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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_ -- There is a deformity, known as parrot-mouth, that interferes with prehension, mastication, and, indirectly, with digestion.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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_lantern-jaw_, the wear occurs on the posterior face of the lower and the anterior face of the superior row of incisors, the teeth taking on somewhat the same shape as the parrot-mouth.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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