Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, having a mouth without any lower jaw; cyclostomous: specifically noting the Cyclostomi, or lampreys and hags.
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Examples
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They had emerged from a round-mouthed tunnel -- it looked already like a rabbit-hole, so huge was the cliff behind -- on to a ledge of rock that formed a sort of road along one side of a mile-wide chasm.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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The image of someone plummeting through this nether world, struggling round-mouthed to scream, nothing but bubbles streaming out, filled his head.
Mortal Remains Clement, Peter, M.D 2003
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The girl against the wall looked at Gaia with a big-eyed, round-mouthed expression that could have been fear or hope or stupidity.
Twisted Francine Pascal 2000
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The girl against the wall looked at Gaia with a big-eyed, round-mouthed expression that could have been fear or hope or stupidity.
Twisted Francine Pascal 2000
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The girl against the wall looked at Gaia with a big-eyed, round-mouthed expression that could have been fear or hope or stupidity.
Twisted Francine Pascal 2000
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An hour later, the kindly mage had gaped in round-mouthed surprise as Kadian deftly pinned the old fellow's moon-and-star robe to the wall with a knife and made off with three enchanted rings, a sack of gold dust, and the mage's best magic wand.
Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995
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Were he to look over his shoulder, Lew knew, he would see the round-eyed, round-mouthed, round-spectacled face of assistant terminal manager Kamau Nyaga peering through his rain-bleared window, like a squirrel waiting for the dogs to pass.
Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982
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She looked up at him, round-mouthed in surprise at his sharpness.
Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958
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The very thunder don't make a good round-mouthed peal like it does at home, but a nasty jabberin 'row, jist as if it was a-tryin' to talk French.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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She looked up at him, round-mouthed in surprise at his sharpness.
Ralestone Luck Norton, Andre 1938
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