JAWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jawed mean? 

• JAWED (adjective)
  The adjective JAWED has 1 sense:

1. of animals having jaws of a specified type

  Familiarity information: JAWED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAWED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of animals having jaws of a specified type

Similar:

long-jawed (having relatively long jaws)

square-jawed (having a relatively square jaw)

Antonym:

jawless (of animals having no jaw)

 Context examples 

The findings also indicate that the last common ancestor between sharks and other types of jawed vertebrates must have existed much earlier than previously thought — by more than 17 million years.

(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

“If you dare open that swine's mouth against me,” shouted the woodman, “I'll crop your ears for you before the hangman has the doing of it, thou long-jawed lackbrain.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The researchers say this shows the amygdala is likely to control hunting and biting behavior across many or all jawed vertebrates.

(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)

A grouping of jawed and jawless vertebrate animals usually having fins and a covering of scales or plates, breathing by means of gills, and living almost entirely in the water.

(FISH, NCI Thesaurus)

Any jawed or jawless organisms in the phylum Chordata including the jawless fish, armored fish, cartilaginous fish, ray-finned fish and lobe-finned fish.

(FISH, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

He directed his eyes at me in that sidelong glance again, and he made his face very lantern-jawed, for the greater convenience of scraping, as he answered: Oh dear, I am not referring to the Doctor! Oh no, poor man! I mean Mr. Maldon!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This research pushes the date for the last common ancestor between sharks and other types of jawed vertebrates back to 440 million years ago — more than 17 million years older than the previous estimate — and raises new questions about what life was like during a prehistoric period long shrouded in secrecy.

(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)