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発音

• IPA: /ˈprɑɡnəθəs/, /prɑɡˈneɪθəs/

形容詞

prognathous (comparative more prognathous, superlative most prognathous)

1. Having jaws that project forward more than is usual, or being such a jaw.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter VIII, in The Land That Time Forgot:

     A huge brute with thick lips and prognathous jaw stood at her shoulder. He was talking loudly and gesticulating wildly.

   • 2013, Adam Slipinski, Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys‎:

     Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.

関連する語

• hyperprognathous
• prognathia
• prognathic
• prognathism