The Akkas, as described by him, have large heads, huge ears, and very prognathous faces.
An interesting fact in connection with these ancient human remains is that most of them indicate a small race, with narrow skulls and prognathous jaws, recalling the Pygmies in general structure.
The hyperborean races, and those of Eastern Asia, constitute the family of Mongolian races; the group of Ethiopian races equally comprises a large number of black races with woolly hair, and a prognathous head.
Codrington writes: "I do not think that the very prognathous human head has anything to do with a bird.
In fact I believe that the ordinary representation of the human head is such, the more prognathous the better it is liked.
The nose lengthens, and its extremity widens, while the face becomes more prognathous with increasing years.
Oblong and prognathous skull of a Negro; side and front views.
The Waiyau are far from a handsome race, but they are not the prognathous beings one sees on the West Coast either.
The prognathous (projecting) jaws of the negro cranium are distinctive, as well as the shape of the nasal opening, which in the black is an equilateral triangle, while it is isosceles in the white.
A huge brute with thick lips andprognathous jaw stood at her shoulder.
Zoöl) Defn: A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.
Their countenances had the trueprognathous character.
Beneath this bonnet her hair was tightly drawn up from her forehead; heavy eyebrows overhung a pair of small, crafty eyes, and a tuft of hair grew on the corner of a prognathous jaw.
As he spoke his prognathous jaw snapped to with a click-like sound, and in his eyes now coal-black were glints of fire.
Generally, however, the prognathous mouth betrays an African origin, and chewing tobacco mixed with ashes stains the teeth, blackens the gums, and mottles the lips.
The dental arches are more curved, thus more human and less ape-like than in the Smith Woodward restoration, and the chin region is made somewhat deeper, thus giving a somewhat less prognathous aspect to the face.
The prognathousor protruding tooth rows and receding chin suggest those in the Heidelberg, Piltdown, and Neanderthal races.
Two of these skulls, preserved at the Madras Museum, are conspicuously prognathous (Pl.
Also its face becomes projecting and prognathous only after the first dentition; and only after the thirteenth year its head is seen to grow longer and its skin to grow darker.
On the other hand, the face of the negro child is less prognathousthan that of the adult.
There we see the same crisped hair, prognathous skull, and thick lips.
The ethnology of the prognathous race does not stop at proving that subordination to the white race is its normal condition.
The lighter shades of color, when not derived from admixture with Mongolian or Caucasian blood, indicate degeneration in the prognathous species.
If Nature had intended the prognathous race for barbarism as the end and object of their creation, they would have been like lions and tigers, fierce and untamable.
Young monkeys and young negroes, however, are not prognathous like their parents, but become so as they grow older.
Whereas, all America can scarcely furnish an example of the kind among the prognathous race.
There never has been an insurrection of the prognathous race against their masters; and from the nature of the ethnical elements of that race, there never can be.
Blackness is a characteristic of the prognathous species of the genus homo, but all the varieties of all the prognathous species are not equally black.
It is utterly unknown to theprognathous race of mankind, and has no place in their language.
Natural history of the prognathous species of mankind.
Prognathous is a technical term derived from pro, before, and gnathos, the jaws, indicating that the muzzle or mouth is anterior to the brain.
Dirt eating, or Cachexia Africana, is another disease, like Dysesthæsia Ethiopica, growing out of ethnical elements peculiar to the prognathous race.
But her white forehead was broad under its soft-hanging eaves of hair, and her chin, though lacking inprognathous prominence or bull-dog breadth, had a certain depth which gave hope to the physiognomist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prognathous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bold; eminent; jutting; outstanding; projecting; prominent; protuberant; salient
