upper jawbone

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   the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium

   Synonymsupper jawmaxillamaxillary

   Broaderjaw

   Partshard palateintermaxillary suture

Questions about upper jawbone

What does upper jawbone mean?

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

What is another word for upper jawbone?

Close synonyms include upper jaw, 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 jawbone a common word?

upper jawbone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.