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Definition of Depressible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depressible
Literary usage of Depressible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America by David Starr Jordan, Charles Henry Gilbert (1882)
"... in both jaws depressible and conspicuously arrow-shaped towards their tips;
inner series of small teeth in upper jaw also arrow-shaped, depressible; ..."
2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1840)
"It is then very easily shown that E possesses the distributive, convertible, and
depressible characters essential to its being logically the object of ..."
3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... maxillary extending somewhat beyond eye, ij in head; lower jaw not strongly
projecting; teeth in narrow bands, the depressible teeth of the inner series ..."
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