Dictionary Entry
maxillary
maxillary is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 23 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.
- 2noun
The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.
- 3noun
Of or pertaining to a maxilla.
- 4noun
the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
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- 5adjective
of or relating to the upper jaw
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