prognathous in English

adjective
1
(especially of a person) having a projecting lower jaw or chin.
adjective

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1. In the prognathous head the long axis is horizontal, or slightly inclined ventrally, while the mouthparts are anterior in position.Sentencedict.com

2. The bridegroom, who is a fine-looking man of the prognathous type, was loudly Cheered by the crowd on leaving the church

3. A new family of thrips, Moundthripidae, is described on the basis of a new genus and species, Moundthrips Beatificus, from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber.This taxon has plesiomorphic prognathous mouthparts, a unique type of wing venation and the main apomorphies of the Thysanoptera of the legs and mouthpart structures, suggesting that they were acquired very early during the …