mandibulate insect

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• mandibulate — [man dib′yo͞o lit, man dib′yo͞olāt΄] adj. 1. having a mandible or mandibles, as some insects 2. adapted for chewing n. a mandibulate insect …   English World dictionary

• Insect morphology — Legend of body parts Tagmata : A Head, B Thorax, C Abdomen. 1. antenna 2. ocelli (lower) 3. ocelli (upper) 4. compound eye 5. brain (cerebral ganglia) 6. prothorax …   Wikipedia

• Mandibulate — Man*dib u*late, n. (Zo[ o]l.) An insect having mandibles. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… …   Universalium

• Insect mouthparts — The development of insect mouthparts from the primitive chewing mouthparts of a grasshopper in the centre (A), to the lapping type (B) of a bee, the siphoning type (C) of a butterfly and the sucking type (D) of a female mosquito. Legend: a,… …   Wikipedia

• mandibulate — 1. adjective Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects. 2. noun An insect having mandibles …   Wiktionary

• Mandible (insect) — Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect’s mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages (the labrum is more anterior, but is a single fused structure). Their function is typically to grasp, crush, or cut the …   Wikipedia

• Mandible (insect mouthpart) — For the corresponding mouthpart in other arthropods, see Mandible (arthropod mouthpart). The mandibles of a Bull ant Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect’s mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages… …   Wikipedia

• man|dib|u|late — «man DIHB yuh liht, layt», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. having a mandible or mandibles; having jaws, as most animals. 2. adapted for chewing. –n. a mandibulate insect …   Useful english dictionary

• heteropteran — ▪ insect order Introduction   any member of the insect order Heteroptera, which comprises the so called true bugs. (Some authorities use the name Hemiptera; others consider both the heteropterans and the homopterans to be suborders of the… …   Universalium

• lepidopteran — /lep i dop teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. lepidopterous. n. 2. a lepidopterous insect. [1850 55; LEPIDOPTER(A) + AN] * * * Any of the more than 100,000 species constituting the order Lepidoptera (Greek: scaly wing ): butterflies, moths, and skippers. The… …   Universalium