Usually means: Articulates jaw in reptiles, birds.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (quadrate bone)

noun:  (anatomy) A bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates other than mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the incus.

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