Its dentaries were toothless (and its maxillae probably were too). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Maxillary segment: the sixth segment of the head, bearing the maxillae. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Maxillulae: a pair of appendages in Thysanurids, between mandibles and first maxillae. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Some groups can be identified by gills on other parts of their body, such as the maxillae. From Wordnik.com. [Insecta (Aquatic)] Reference
Elinguata: without a tongue: forms in which the maxillae are connate with the labium: see synista. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Eleutherata: all forms with free, separated maxillae; later, and more specifically, the Coleoptera. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Mouth-parts: a collective name including labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium and appendages = trophi. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Technically, the tomato is not a vegetable; it is a flowering root, and a member of the “maxillae” family. From Wordnik.com. [Open Thread: “Facts” « Whatever] Reference
Palpus: a mouth feeler: tactile, usually jointed structures borne by the maxillae (maxillary palpi) and labium (labial palpi). From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Mala maxillae: the globes of maxilla; outer or galea, inner or lacinia; where only one is present, the term refers to that one. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Although distinct segmentation is absent, the head possesses four pairs of appendages including the antennules, antennae, mandibles and maxillae, while the thorax has 3 pairs of legs. From Wordnik.com. [Crustacea] Reference
But her face, oval and dark-eyed, delicious in lip and nose, and a little sad in repose, constantly blurred the outlines of maxillae, thighbones, and the other interesting phenomena of his job. From Wordnik.com. [Maid in Waiting] Reference
G. dentibus maxillae infe - toitris. rioris horizontalibus. From Wordnik.com. [Caroli a Linné. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis] Reference
Saevit Boreas, mugiunt procellae, dentibus invitis maxillae bellum gerunt. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
The lower jaw-bone, os maxillae inferioris, has but two joints, those under each ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference
"The following stage already displays a fourth pair of extremities, the future maxillae.". From Wordnik.com. [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference
Fetuses with absence of the maxillae (Nos. 16 and 17) are in modern terminology called agnathous. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
All the feet are essentially constructed in the same manner and resemble the maxillae of the higher Crustacea. From Wordnik.com. [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference
The pre-maxillae and maxillae bound the sides of the nasal passage, and it is completed above by a pair of splints, the nasals. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
In a subsequent moult the new limbs (maxillae, and anterior and intermediate maxillipedes) come into action, and in this way the. From Wordnik.com. [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference
Because the maxillae are really small, the ridge normally present along the edge of the upper jaw has (uniquely) moved to the palatine bones. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The right and left mandibles and maxillae of bed bugs are four elongated stylets connected at their midlines and this forms the fascicle that penetrates the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
The skull is that of a lynx, but the processes of the frontals and intermaxillae are not quite so much produced, and they do not entirely separate the nasal from the maxillae. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Kr. female, magnified 25 times, showing the orifice of entrance (x) into the cavity overarched by the carapace, in which an appendage of the second pair of maxillae (f) plays. From Wordnik.com. [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference
The structure of their buccal organs, especially the formation of the labium, "which retains, either perfectly or approximately, the original form of a second pair of maxillae" (Gerstacker). From Wordnik.com. [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference
The cortical bone of the Nature of the evidence: The partial cranium of a juvenile, postcranial skeleton is thicker than is the case in modern parts of mandibles and maxillae and isolated teeth. humans. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Round the edge of the jaw, and bearing the teeth, are pre-maxillae (p.m.), and maxillae (mx.), and overlying the quadrate cartilage and lateral to the otic capsules are the T-shaped squamosal bones (sq.). From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
"glossa" and "tongue": corresponds to the united laciniae of right and left maxillae: see also elytral ligula. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Teca enim est ferrum figurae rotundae, quod ignitum solet in quibusdam regionibus imprimi fronti vel maxillae furis seu latronum. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu-Arabic Numerals] Reference
(maxillae, maxillipedes) and middle-body make their appearance simultaneously, as do the five pairs of abdominal feet at a later period. From Wordnik.com. [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference
Yet all these organs, serving for such different purposes, are formed by infinitely numerous modifications of an upper lip, mandibles, and two pairs of maxillae. From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
86 De fiftala maxillae, vel de conficicndo collyrio fiftu - lari. t7 T) t expofitione fiftulae. From Wordnik.com. [Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs]..] Reference
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