Maxillae

Word MAXILLAE
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Definitions and meanings of "Maxillae"

What do we mean by maxillae?

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.

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The word "maxillae" in example sentences

The mandibles and maxillae are concerned with chewing, milling or otherwise processing food. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

More or less invariably, the five segmental appendages of the head, reading from the front, consist of first antennae (or antennules), second antennae (often just called antennae), mandibles, first maxillae (or maxillules) and second maxillae. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

Its dentaries were toothless (and its maxillae probably were too). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Some groups can be identified by gills on other parts of their body, such as the maxillae. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In Protarchaeopteryx, teeth are restricted to the premaxillae and anterior parts of the maxillae and dentaries, with the premaxillary teeth being a few times taller than the others (Ji et al. 1998). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Although distinct segmentation is absent, the head possesses four pairs of appendages including the antennules, antennae, mandibles and maxillae, while the thorax has 3 pairs of legs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Technically, the tomato is not a vegetable; it is a flowering root, and a member of the “maxillae” family. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A small mouth, by means of small maxillae, is very essential, as it is the specific characteristic of the human face as distinguished from the muzzle of the brutes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But her face, oval and dark-eyed, delicious in lip and nose, and a little sad in repose, constantly blurred the outlines of maxillae, thighbones, and the other interesting phenomena of his job. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Many of these individuals wore collars composed of imitation human maxillae with teeth carved from shell, as well as several real maxillae and mandibles, and were deposited in the pits with more than 2,100 pieces of worked shell and numerous obsidian blades and points. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Eleutherata: all forms with free, separated maxillae; later, and more specifically, the Coleoptera. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Mala maxillae: the globes of maxilla; outer or galea, inner or lacinia; where only one is present, the term refers to that one. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Maxillulae: a pair of appendages in Thysanurids, between mandibles and first maxillae. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Maxillary segment: the sixth segment of the head, bearing the maxillae. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Mouth-parts: a collective name including labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium and appendages = trophi. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Mentum: a labial sclerite bearing the movable parts; attached to and sometimes fused with the sub-mentum; corresponds to the (united) stipes of maxillae: in Coleoptera, what is usually called mentum is really submentum: in Diptera, the term is applied to the posterior oral margin: in Hymenoptera, is part of "tongue," the second joint bearing the labial palpi, paraglossae and ligula. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

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