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What does jawed mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word jawed? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having jaws.
  2. (in combination) Having a specified type of jaw.
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Jimmy twice had the iron jawed Bonevena on the canvas, something Joe Frazier could not do in 25 rounds of fighting.
The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
No one had unambiguously located such genes in animals more primitive than the jawed vertebrates.
At a quick glance, jawless fish such as the lamprey above don't appear to have much in common with jawed fish or any other back-boned creature.
In contrast, people and other jawed vertebrates brandish adaptive immune systems.
For example, it is possible that the brainstem reticular formation is divided into the same number of nuclei in all jawed vertebrates.

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