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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 |