Definition of "mandibulary" []

• Mandibular (adjective)

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• "But one of them by chance, groping or sounding the country with his staff, to try whether they were in safety or no, struck hard against the cleft of a hollow tooth, and hit the mandibulary sinew or nerve of the jaw, which put Gargantua to very great pain, so that he began to cry for the rage that he felt."
• "Lastly, the compression of the neck by the mandibulary pincers, the munching of the weak spot between the base of the skull and the first segment of the thorax, is sometimes practised and sometimes neglected."
• "Ancistrus mullerae, named after Swiss ichthyologist Sonia Fisch-Muller, is distinguished from congeners in the region by a combination of: shorter maxillary barbel that is not distinctly produced from the lower lip margin, width of mandibulary tooth rows 16. 5-21.0% head length and"