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NARROW-MOUTHED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does narrow-mouthed mean?
• NARROW-MOUTHED (adjective)
The adjective NARROW-MOUTHED has 1 sense:
1. having a narrow mouth
Familiarity information: NARROW-MOUTHED used as an adjective is very rare.
Context examples
In their narrow-mouthed caves the natives, whoever they might be, had refuges into which the huge saurians could not penetrate, while with their developed brains they were capable of setting such traps, covered with branches, across the paths which marked the run of the animals as would destroy them in spite of all their strength and activity.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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