Lower jaw
Lower jaw noun - The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth.
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Mandibles
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The Arbiter and the Sangheili/Elites as a whole have their own Estrogen Brigade, despite being giant space lizards with four mandibles instead of a lower jaw.
Source: Estrogen Brigade - Also referenced in Halo: Glasslands, which notes that the Elites, despite having four mandibles instead of a lower jaw, can approximate some human languages by moving their lower mandibles together like a jaw.
Source: Aliens Speaking English
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Mandibles and Lower jaw. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lower_jaw/mandibles
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