✅ Rabbit refers to a burrowing mammal with large ears and long hind legs, which is smaller than a hare (We saw a rabbit in our garden).

✅ Lagomorph refers to any member of the order Lagomorpha, a category which includes hares, rabbits, and other kinds of rodent-like animals with two pairs of upper incisors (We found fossilized lagomorph droppings during our excavation).

✅ Lagomorph is a scientific term, whereas rabbit is the common term for one kind of lagomorph.

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✅ Skull refers to the part of the skeleton that protects the brain and forms the structure of the head. Informally, it can also refer to the brain or mind (I discovered an animal skull in my garden; Get it into your skull that I don’t want to go).

✅ Cranium refers to the skull, especially the part surrounding the brain (We can see an injury to the cranium, perhaps caused by an arrow).

✅ Skull and cranium refer to the same part of the skeleton. Skull has a slightly wider meaning, referring to the entire head, whereas cranium generally refers more specifically to the part of the skull around the brain.

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✅ Jaw refers to either of the two bones that form the structure of the mouth, and can also refer to the part of the face covering those bones or to the mouth in general (He had a bruised jaw after the fight).

✅ Mandible refers to the lower jawbone in humans, the bottom part of a bird’s bill, or the mouthparts of insects, crustaceans, and some other animals (The crab’s mandible was extremely powerful).

✅ Jaw is the common word, and mandible is used as an anatomical term.

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