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promaxillary

promaxillary adjective: at the front of the jawbone.

Adjective

promaxillary (not comparable)

  1. At the front of the jawbone
    • A large promaxillary fenestra is also seen in other Liaoning dromaeosaurids such as Sinornithosaurus 21 and Tianyuraptor 15, but it is much smaller in most other dromaeosaurids, such as Velociraptor 26 and Tsaagan 27 .2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in...

Origin of promaxillary

From pro- + maxillary.

Words that rhyme with promaxillary

Questions about promaxillary

What does promaxillary mean?
Promaxillary means at the front of the jawbone.
What part of speech is promaxillary?
Promaxillary is an adjective.

Words near promaxillary in the dictionary

  1. promastigotes
  2. promastocyte
  3. promastocytes
  4. promateur
  5. promax
  6. promaxillary
  7. promazine
  8. promdi
  9. promdis
  10. Prome
  11. ProMED

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