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undershot
verb
uk /ˈʌn.də.ʃɒt/ us /ˈʌn.dɚ.ʃɑːt/
past simple and past participle ofundershoot
undershot
adjective
uk /ˈʌn.də.ʃɒt/ us /ˈʌn.dɚ.ʃɑːt/
If the mouth of a person or animal is undershot, the lower lip and jaw are further forward than the upper part:
undershot jawIts nose was flat, its mouth broad, and its heavy, undershot jaws were armed with powerful teeth.
Her lips were full and slightly undershot.
Compare
underbite
Most of the skeletal defects of the jaw and palate involved an undershot jaw.
The extremes of our bite measure range might be readily recognized as overshot and undershot jaws.
In the shadows, I saw only his mouth with its full, slightly undershot lower lip.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The mouth & throat
adenoid
alveolar
alveolar ridge
buccal
buccinator
hard palate
Jacobson's organ
jawline
labial
labially
labiodental
mandible
pharynx
salivary gland
sphenopalatine
stomodeal
stomodeum
sublingual
submandibular
tonsil
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