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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • She looked up at him, round-mouthed in surprise at his sharpness.

    Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

  • 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

  • She looked up at him, round-mouthed in surprise at his sharpness.

    Ralestone Luck Norton, Andre 1938

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