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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated before the chin or mentum.
  • noun A pregenial process; in herpetology, one of the anterior of two pairs of shields, or scutes, lying back of the mental and between the infralabials, on the under side of the jaw; an anterior chin-shield: correlated with postgenial.

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