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Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.

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  1. a. Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.
  2. n. The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.
  3. n. Of or pertaining to a maxilla.
  4. adj. of or relating to the upper jaw
  5. n. the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
  6. 1. (Anat.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. -- n. The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla. 2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.
  7. j:100 a. of or relating to the upper jaw