With the argus pheasant they represent the largest, most dramatically colored and longest tailed birds of the pheasant family Phasianidae. The peacock is a popular zoological specimen but has a typically raucous voice and is frequently muted surgically.
Definitions for lantern jaw. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word lantern jaw. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: lantern jaw(noun) a long thin lower jaw.
In both high-crowned and low-crowned teeth, the tooth is attached to a socket in the jaw bone called an alveolus. The attachment is through a fibrous capsule called the gomphosis. Remembering the term gomphosis is required only of dental students.