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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated between the maxillary or upper jaw-bones: specifically applied to the intermaxilla or premaxilla.
  • noun The intermaxilla or premaxilla; one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw, situated between or rather in front of the maxillary bones, and in relation with its fellow of the opposite side.
  • noun One of the foremost pair of the upper jawbones in most teleostean fishes, once generally supposed to be homologous with the intermaxillary of the higher vertebrates.
  • noun The intermaxillary lobe of an insect. See I.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Between the maxillary bones.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the intermaxillæ.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Between the maxillae.
  • noun An intermaxilla or premaxilla.

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inter- +‎ maxillary

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