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foot-jaw

noun

Etymology

From foot + jaw.

  1. derived from *ga(v)ota✻ — “cheek”
  2. derived from joe — “cheek; jaw”
  3. derived from jowe
  4. inherited from jowe — “jaw; sides of the lower face”
  5. compounded as foot-jaw — “foot + jaw”

Definitions

  1. A limb of a crustacean, insect, or other arthropod, that acts as an accessory mouth-part.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA