: having jaws
jawed fishes
usually used in combination
square-jawed
a three-jawed chuck

Examples of jawed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 And all toothed animals living now—from trout to humans to crocodiles—appear to have descended from a single group of jawed fish, says University of Chicago paleontologist Yara Haridy, who was also not involved in the research. Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022 Ultimately, these movies are about our own connection to nature, and the more permutations in which Cameron explores this idea, the deeper and richer the series will likely become — making all that slack-jawed self-soiling all the more emotionally satisfying. Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2022 That includes reporters who were slack-jawed after Sykes relayed a story from his philosophy class about a Socrates dinner party in which it was suggested that love was a function of people being split in half at birth, creating the need for a counterpart to complete them. Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022 But here, Pine is called upon to be both a traditional square-jawed hero ready to save the world and the smart-ass comic relief looking out for No. 1. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023 Photographs show a round, sturdy-jawed, tough yet cheerful young man, his eyes smiling even when his mouth isn’t. Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1529, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of jawed was circa 1529

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“Jawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jawed. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

Medical Definition

jawed

adjective
: having jaws
jawed fishes
usually used in combination
square-jawed

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