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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Anything that suspends or holds up a part, especially the mandibular suspensorium, a series of bones or cartilages connecting the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals

   "fish suspensorium"

Etymology

From New Latin

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