What does upper jaw mean?

upper jaw means "the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium".

What is another word for upper jaw?

Close synonyms include upper jawbone, maxilla, maxillary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is upper jaw a common word?

upper jaw is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

upper jaw — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
Synonymsupper jawbone maxilla maxillary
Broaderjaw
Partshard palate intermaxillary suture

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