顎

Meaning

顎 centers on the lower facial structure: the jaw and chin. The gill sense is a biological extension where a similar hinged or protruding structure appears in fish.

• 顎あご
  N3

  jaw; chin

• 顎がく

  jaw

• 上顎うわあご

  upper jaw; palate

• 顎骨がっこつ

  jawbone; mandible

• 顎髭あごひげ

  beard (esp. on the chin); goatee

• ケツ顎ケツあご

  cleft chin

• 上顎前突症じょうがくぜんとつしょう

  maxillary prognathism

• 上顎骨じょうがくこつ

  maxilla; upper jawbone

• 下顎したあご

  lower jaw; mandible

• 下顎骨かがくこつ

  mandible; lower jawbone

• 二重顎にじゅうあご

  double chin

• 毛顎動物もうがくどうぶつ

  chaetognath (any worm of phylum Chaetognatha)

• 毛顎動物門もうがくどうぶつもん

  Chaetognatha (phylum of arrow worms)

• 無顎類むがくるい

  agnathans (jawless fishes of superclass Agnatha)

• 突顎とつがく

  prognathism

• 顎がしゃくれるあごがしゃくれる

  to have a protruding chin; to have a turned-up chin

• 顎のしゃくれたあごのしゃくれた

  (person) with a turned-up chin

• 顎の骨あごのほね

  jawbone; mandible

• 顎をしゃくるあごをしゃくる

  to jerk one's chin; to nod toward; to point one's chin at

• 顎クイあごクイ

  suddenly lifting someone's face by their chin (in a domineering yet romantic fashion)

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