prognathous

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Forty-seven snubs by forty-seven hooks; forty-seven receding by forty-seven prognathous chins.

From Literature

Nothing will begrudge, I'm sure, That may nourish, please, or cure His prognathous little pet.

From Project Gutenberg

I am subjectively certain that some ancestor of mine with prognathous jaw, flat forehead and enormous thews, paddled over the sea that once filled these plains and roamed over the far-separated hill-tracks.

From Project Gutenberg

Sutherland was famously prognathous, but Poplavskaya's jaw – angular, horizontally extended to give her square face the look of a cubist carving – is even more extraordinary.

From The Guardian

The skull is dolichocephalic with an average cranial index of 72, prognathous and platyrrhine.

From Project Gutenberg