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Situated under the axilla, or armpit.

Situated under the maxilla, or lower jaw; inframaxillary; as, the submaxillary gland.

The supermaxilla.

Supermaxillary.

Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.

The upper jaw or maxilla.

Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve.

Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.

Axillary; in the fork or axil. Gray.

ing, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]

A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]

The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.

The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects.

simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; -- called also harmonic, and harmony. -- Harmonic triad (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth; the common chord.

Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.

Having the maxilla, or lower jaw, longer than the upper, as in the skimmer.