: having jaws
jawed fishes
—usually used in combinationsquare-jawed
a three-jawed chuck
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The results challenge the idea that the sympathetic nervous system evolved in jawed vertebrates, the study authors write, pushing its origins farther back than expected.
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Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
The role of Vitamin A The team built on previous work that found that the genes that build and subdivide the sea lamprey hindbrain are identical to those genes in jawed vertebrates.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
Known as placoderms, these primitive jawed vertebrates came in all shapes and sizes, from small bottom-dwellers to giant filter-feeders.
—Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
If found to be a vertebrate, the Tully monster would fill a gap in evolutionary history, connecting jawless fish (such as lampreys and hagfish) to jawed fish.
—Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2023
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Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
The role of Vitamin A The team built on previous work that found that the genes that build and subdivide the sea lamprey hindbrain are identical to those genes in jawed vertebrates.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
Known as placoderms, these primitive jawed vertebrates came in all shapes and sizes, from small bottom-dwellers to giant filter-feeders.
—Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
If found to be a vertebrate, the Tully monster would fill a gap in evolutionary history, connecting jawless fish (such as lampreys and hagfish) to jawed fish.
—Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2023
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jawed
adjective
: having jaws
jawed fishes
—usually used in combination
square-jawed
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