gnathidium

English

Etymology

New Latin, from Ancient Greek.

Noun

gnathidium (plural gnathidia)

1. (zoology) The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gnathidium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)