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.
malleus (plural mallei) ( 1 anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear. quotations â¼ A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion. ( 2 ichthyology) The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes). ( 3 zoology) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.