Thesaurus: maxilla
The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.
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Definitions
- n. The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.
- n. The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible.
- n. One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods.
- n. the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
- n:100 n the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium