quadrate

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Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost.With one quadrate eye, the vault reflects a frigid blue sea.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022

Kemp, T. S. Acoustic transformer function of the postdentary bones and quadrate of a nonmammalian cynodont.

From Nature • Nov. 12, 2017

The malleus originated from the articular bone, whereas the incus originated from the quadrate bone.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

In fishes it braced the articulation of the lower and upper jaws, the quadrate and articular bones.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2014

The squamosals are moderate in size and extend one-fourth the distance from the dorsal end of the quadrate to the maxillary.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.