maxillae's Usage Examples:

Mandibles rarely present, adapted for piercing; first maxillae with palps; second maxillae forming with hypopharynx a suctorial proboscis.

In front or above the mouth is bounded by the labrum, while the mandibles and first maxillae lie on either side of it.

Nasal bones large and stout, co-ossified, and standing out freely above the premaxillae, from which they are separated by a deep and wide fissure; the latter small, generally not meeting in the middle line in front, often rudimentary.

Biting mandibles; vestigial maxillulae; second maxillae incompletely fused.

a, mandible; b, c, palp and lacinia of first maxilla; d, e, g, h, mentum, palp, fused laciniae (ligula or "tongue") and galea of 2nd maxillae.

The ventraPscleriteof the head-skeleton (gula), well developed in most families of beetles, is absent among the Rhynchophora, while the palps of the maxillae are much reduced.

Mandibles absent in imago, very exceptionally present in pupa; first maxillae nearly always without laciniae and often without palps, or only with vestigial palps, their galeae elongated and grooved inwardly so as to form a sucking trunk.

"The maxillae of the hinder pair become more or less fused together to form a " lower lip " or labium, and the segment of these appendages is, in some insects, only imperfectly united with the head-capsule.

Biting mandibles; second maxillae incompletely or completely fused; often forming a suctorial proboscis.

Mandibles and first maxillae modified as piercers; second maxillae fused to form a jointed, grooved rostrum.

The head - carrying feelers, mandibles and two pairs of maxillae - is succeeded by the three thoracic segments, each bearing a pair of strong five-segmented legs, whose feet, like those of the adult, carry two claws.

Synonyms:

hard palate, sutura intermaxillaris, upper jaw, jaw, maxillary, upper jawbone, intermaxillary suture,

Antonyms:

praise,