maxilliformadj.
/makˈsɪlᵻfɔːm/, U.S. /mækˈsɪləˌfɔrm/ Chiefly Zoology.† 2. Of the form of a cheekbone; of the form of a maxilla of a vertebrate (see maxilla n. 1). Obsolete. rare.
1. Of the form of or resembling a maxilla of an invertebrate (see maxilla n. 2). Now rare.
ΚΠ
1831 H. McMurtrie tr. P. A. Latreille in G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom III. 163 We see by Mygale, Scorpio, &c. that the palpi are divided into six joints, of which, in the other Araneides, the first or radical one, is anteriorly and internally dilated to form the maxilliform lobe.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 78 The whole organ may be regarded as maxilliform.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 257 With Maxilliform Gnathites.
1926 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 214 15 The change that takes place at the succeeding ecdysis of the form of the maxilla from a simple pediform limb to a typical maxilliform appendage.
1986 F. R. Schram Crustacea xxviii. 347 The larval and juvenile mandibles, however, are rather maxilliform.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [adjective] > jawbones > upper
maxillary1626
maxillar1656
intermaxillar1801
maxilliform1850
premaxillary1851
premaxillo-maxillary1860
1850 Imperial Dict. (at cited word) Maxilliform, in the form of a cheek-bone.
1929 H. F. B. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2709/1 The upper teeth of all mammals are fixed in similar maxilliform..structures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.1831