Definitions for maxillas

maxillas max·il·la

Spelling: [mak-sil-uh]
IPA: /mækˈsɪl ə/

Maxillas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in maxillas (aaillmsx).

Definitions for maxillas

noun

  1. a jaw or jawbone, especially the upper.
  2. one of the paired appendages immediately behind the mandibles of arthropods.

Origin of maxillas

1670-80; New Latin, special use of Latin maxilla lower jaw, diminutive of māla (*maxlā) upper jaw, cheekbone

Examples for maxillas

There are not more than two pairs of limbs behind the maxilla.

The jugal (fig. 11, 17) lies above the maxilla and overlaps it in front.

It is wholly confined to the maxilla, not extending on to the nasals.

Behind this the edge of the maxilla is only slightly convex.

The premaxilla is rudimentary and loosely attached to the maxilla.

Mala (from , or from Mandere) denotes the upper, maxilla, the under jaw.

There is no operculum and no representative of the maxilla or premaxillae.

(Hymenoptera L.) maxilla corneous, compressed, often elongate.

Now these three lobes may be easily distinguished in the maxilla of Lepisma.

maxillary palpi: the first pair of palpi, borne on the maxilla.

Word Value for maxillas
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16

Words with friends

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