quadrate

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Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost.With one quadrate eye, the vault reflects a frigid blue sea.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022

Kemp, T. S. Acoustic transformer function of the postdentary bones and quadrate of a nonmammalian cynodont.

From Nature • Nov. 12, 2017

In mammals, the dentary bone joins the skull at the squamosal bone, while in other vertebrates, the quadrate bone of the jaw joins with the articular bone of the skull.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

In fishes it braced the articulation of the lower and upper jaws, the quadrate and articular bones.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2014

The posterior third of the squamosal forms a broad base by means of which the squamosal articulates with the quadrate.

From A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) by Wellman, John