Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as suborbital
  • noun .
  • Relating to a yoke or to marriage; conjugal.
  • Pertaining to the jugal; malar; zygomatic.
  • noun One of the bones of the zygoma or zygomatic arch; the malar bone, or principal cheek-bone, especially in those animals, as birds, in which it is a slender rod interposed between a quadrate or quadratojugal bone and the superior maxillary or lacrymal bone. When short and stout, as in man

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Relating to a yoke, or to marriage.
  • adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Relating to a yoke or marriage
  • adjective anatomy Pertaining to the jugal bone.
  • noun anatomy A bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds; the equivalent of a malar in mammals.

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Examples

  • These guys had very oddly-shaped heads, which I'm probably not going to be able to convey in a profile shot -- they were almost triangular, with the jugal horns flaring way out and very narrow beaks.

    Archive 2009-02-22 Sean Craven 2009

  • These guys had very oddly-shaped heads, which I'm probably not going to be able to convey in a profile shot -- they were almost triangular, with the jugal horns flaring way out and very narrow beaks.

    Psittacosaurus neimongoliensis: Part One Sean Craven 2009

  • Co-ossification of the epinasal, rostral, and epijugals unites several of the anterior (rostral-nasal-premaxillae) and lateral (jugal-quadratojugal) skull elements.

    Triceratops cranial epi-ossifications ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Co-ossification of the epinasal, rostral, and epijugals unites several of the anterior (rostral-nasal-premaxillae) and lateral (jugal-quadratojugal) skull elements.

    Archive 2008-04-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • The area of zygomaticomaxillary suture (joint between the cheekbone and upper jaw) showing the "nick," that is, the misalignment of bones owing to the fact that some fragments, such as the jugal crest shown here, are badly stuck together.

    Not Philip II of Macedon 2000

  • The mandibular arch in the developing fish is abruptly angled, as in the embryo of Tetrapoda; the upper prong of it ossifies into the palatine and pterygoid; at the angle is formed the quadrate (jugal, Cuvier), and to the quadrate is articulated the lower jaw, which ossifies round the lower prong or Meckel's cartilage.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • A closer approximation to the state of the case will be reached if the student will imagine the maxilla raised up so as to overlie and hide the palatine and presphenoid, the squamosal similarly overlying the periotic bone, and the jugal reaching between them.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • - A paired ossification appears in the palato-pterygoid cartilage the pterygoid bone (pt.), while - A splint of bone, the quadrato-jugal, appears at the angle of articulation with the lower jaw.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • * The jugal or malar (ju.) reaches over from the maxilla to meet a zygomatic process (= connecting outgrowth) (z.p.) of the squamosal bone.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • The upper jaw has a great bar of cartilage, the palato-pterygoid, as its sole support; the arch of premaxilla, maxilla, jugal, and squamosal -- all membrane bones -- is, of course, not represented.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

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  • For some folk obliged to be frugal

    Adventure’s confined to a google.

    It’s not parsimony

    But dear matrimony -

    The price of the benisons jugal.

    January 8, 2018