Converse of object

• have: The mother also had a broken mandible, whilst the daughter suffered from an additional shoulder trauma and leg injuries.

• curve: It would then use its incredibly long, curved upper mandible to probe under any dislodged bark or moss.

• protrude: Some have faceted eyes over protruding mandibles and a few even have wings although there are no accounts of any that can fly.

• call: The upper jaw is called the maxilla; the lower jaw is called a mandible.

Adjective modifier

• upper: The babies are born gray with a straight bill, the upper mandible with a slight hook.

• low: Once the lower mandible makes contact with a fish the beak is snapped shut.

• large: A full identification of the large deer mandible is also desirable.

• ageable: Mandibles with less complete tooth rows were assigned to age groups on the basis of comparison with more complete ageable mandibles from the assemblage.

• elderly: Considering the high numbers of elderly mandibles and heavily worn loose teeth, this seems an unlikely situation.

• complete: In an attempt to categorize them, these were measured and compared to teeth in more complete mandibles.

Modifies a noun

• datum: Period 5 produced 114 elements suitable for epiphyseal fusion analysis the results of which broadly agreed with those of the mandible data.

Noun used with modifier

• sheep: Abstract A new method was developed in this study for testing excised sheep mandibles as a cantilever.

• pig: Figure 4. A pig mandible with distorted alignment of teeth.