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Of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor; as, the incisive bones, the premaxillaries.

rminate inflorescence (Bot.), a mode of inflorescence in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the stem indefinitely; -- called also acropetal, botryose, centripetal, and indefinite inflorescence. Gray. -- Indeterminate problem (Math.), a problem whi…

The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.

The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.

Having the form, or structure, of a maxilla.

Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo- mandibular nerve.

Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.

Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull. -- n.

the peppermint, spearmint, etc. The plants have small flowers, usually arranged in dense axillary clusters.

se, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled…

A tree (Olea Europæa) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.

r of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.

One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

e of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.

mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.

The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.

An order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary.

S.] -- Poison dogwood (Bot.), poison sumac. -- Poison fang (Zoöl.), one of the superior maxillary teeth of some species of serpents, which, besides having the cavity for the pulp, is either perforated or grooved by a longitudinal canal, at the lower end of which the duct of the poison gland terminates. See Illust. und…