PROGNATHOUS Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of PROGNATHOUS is being or having a jaw and typically a lower jaw that projects forward especially to an unusual degree How to use prognathous in a sentence
prognathous - Wiktionary, the free dictionary prognathous (comparative more prognathous, superlative most prognathous) Having jaws that project forward more than is usual, or being such a jaw 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter VIII, in The Land That Time Forgot: A huge brute with thick lips and prognathous jaw stood at her shoulder He was talking loudly and gesticulating wildly
prognathous, adj. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary The earliest known use of the adjective prognathous is in the 1830s OED's earliest evidence for prognathous is from 1836, in the writing of James Prichard, physician and ethnologist prognathous is formed within English, by derivation Etymons: pro-prefix 2, ‑gnathous comb form
Prognathous | definition of prognathous by Medical dictionary On the other side stands the prognathous Richard Thompson, "who, in profile at least, bore an uncanny resemblance to William Jennings Bryan"; Reverend Groves, "a wiry little homo-hater"; Patrick Gillen, who, "from the middle of his nose up, wore an expression of extreme anxiety, his brows furrowed"; Bill Buckingham, who speaks with a "mildly surly voice, a whine of self-pity always present