maxillas in English

noun
1
the jaw or jawbone, specifically the upper jaw in most vertebrates. In humans it also forms part of the nose and eye socket.
There are five large teeth on the maxillae (upper jaw bone), rather short canines, and at least twenty small and uniform post-canines.
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1. Maxillas caprinis, proferens cornua ultra Cubitalem longa, ñeque enim rigent sed moventur, ut usus exigit proeliandi, quorum cum uno pugnat, alter replicat." 26 A less extraordinary animal from India drawn by both Richard and the artist of the Ebstorf map, and derived from Solinus, was the parrot.