Associations to the word «Maxilla»

Wiktionary

MAXILLA, noun. Either of the two bones that together form the upper jaw.
MAXILLA, noun. Arachnid mouthpart

Dictionary definition

MAXILLA, noun. The jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope