Maxilla

What do we mean by maxilla?

Either of a pair of bones of the human skull fusing in the midline and forming the upper jaw. noun

A homologous bone of the skull in other vertebrates. noun

Either of two laterally moving appendages situated behind the mandibles in insects and most other arthropods. noun

In anatomy and zoology: A jaw or jaw-bone; a maxillary bone; especially, a bone of the upper jaw, as distinguished from the mandible. noun

Specifically, the supramaxillary bone proper, as distinguished from the premaxillary or intermaxillary, which is often fused therewith in the higher vertebrates. noun

In entomology, as in insects and arachnidans, one of the second pair of gnathites; either one, right and left, of the second or lower pair of horizontal jaws, next behind or below the mandibles. noun

In Crustacea, the right or left one of either of the two pairs of gnathites which come next after the mandibles, between these and the maxillipeds. The maxillæ of a crustacean thus correspond to those of an insect, but there is an additional pair of them. noun

The bone of either the upper or the under jaw. noun

The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible. noun

One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods. noun

Either of the two bones that together form the upper jaw. noun

Arachnid mouthpart noun

The jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium noun

Either of the two bones that together form the upper jaw.

(arthropodology) One of a set of paired mouthparts found in many arthropods and used for tasting and manipulating food.

Words that are spelled similarly to maxilla:
maxilla, axilla, manilla, mamilla, marilla, paxilla, maxill, magilla, mailla.

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Words that rhyme with maxilla:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe maxilla:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective maxilla:
black, suture, contact.

Consonant match to maxilla:
maxillae.

Words that sound like maxilla:
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