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If a face is prognathous, the jaw sits farther forward than the rest of the face, so the mouth and teeth stick out a little (or a lot) instead of lining up under a flat profile. You almost never hear this in the street. It belongs to science talk: bones, teeth, animal faces, old skulls. A long-snouted dog is an easy picture; a person can be prognathous too, and in those books it is a shape, not a rude remark. Everyday English would just say a sticking-out jaw. Though actually, faces are a mix — one jaw can sit forward while the rest of the head does not — so the word is a careful label, not a cartoon.
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組成pro- (forward, out in front) + -gnathous (having a jaw of a certain kind, from Greek gnathos, jaw).
同家族的字
- prognathismthe name for this jaw-forward shape
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prognathousadj/ˈprɑɡnəθəs/
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Having a jaw that projects forward more than is usual, or being such a jaw.
- A huge brute with thick lips and prognathous jaw stood at her shoulder. He was talking loudly and gesticulating wildly.
- Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。