Definitions
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- adj. Of or pertaining to the premaxillae
- n. A premaxilla.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxillæ; intermaxillary.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Situated in front of or at the fore part of the maxilla; intermaxillary; pertaining to the premaxilla.
- n. The premaxillary bone; the intermaxillary.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some kind of premaxillary crest was present, but the skull is not well preserved enough to determine its original shape.
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Basal tyrannosauroids and other basal coelurosaurs that possess specialised premaxillary teeth that might have been used in preening/grooming of quill-like integumentary structures.
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Those short premaxillary teeth present in tyrannosauroids have conventionally been regarded as having a primary role in feeding, and it might be easy to confirm this by looking for micro - or macrowear.
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The score mark matches precisely the dimensions of a tyrannosaurid premaxillary tooth tip, as Luis is demonstrating with the help of a handy set of tyrannosaurid premaxillae he just happens to own.
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It seems that these birds lost the teeth from the back of the jaws first, and kept their premaxillary and dentary-tip teeth the longest.
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In Protarchaeopteryx, teeth are restricted to the premaxillae and anterior parts of the maxillae and dentaries, with the premaxillary teeth being a few times taller than the others (Ji et al. 1998).
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In archaeopterygids for example, the premaxillary teeth are more peg-like and more procumbent than are the other teeth.
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Pressure-sensitive organs termed Herbst corpuscles, embedded within pits on the premaxillary and dentary tips, are closely packed and particularly numerous in birds that probe sediments.
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Could those little premaxillary teeth have been specialized for ectoparasite control?
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More derived oviraptorosaurs were toothless, but the bony premaxillary margins of their upper jaw were serrated, raising the possibility that the tomium was serrated too.
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