maxillary

Of or relating to a jaw or jawbone, especially the upper one.

A maxillary bone; a jawbone.

The posterior of the two bones which border the upper jaw in osseous fishes. It usually bears teeth in the soft-rayed fishes, but in the spiny-rayed fishes the teeth are confined to the prem axillary.

Of or pertaining in any way to a jaw or jaw-bone; specifically, of or pertaining to the maxilla alone, in any of the special senses of that word: as, the maxillary bones of a vertebrate; the maxillary palps of an insect.

A jawbone; a maxillary bone, or maxilla.

Of or relating to the jaw or jawbone

The jawbone

of or relating to the upper jaw

the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium