Mandibulate definition

măn-dĭbyə-lĭt, -lāt
An arthropod having mandibles.
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Having a mandible or mandibles, as some insects.
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Having a mandible or mandibles.
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Having a mandible or mandibles.
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An arthropod having mandibles.
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Adapted for chewing.
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A mandibulate insect.
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Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.
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(zoology) An insect having mandibles.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
mandibulate
Plural:
mandibulates

Mandibulate Sentence Examples

  • In the structure of the digestive system, beetles resemble most other mandibulate insects, the food-canal consisting of gullet, crop, gizzard, mid-gut or stomach, intestine and rectum.

  • The standing of the Trichoptera in a position almost ancestral to the Lepidoptera is one of the assured results of recent morphological study, the mobile mandibulate pupa and the imperfectly suctorial maxillae of the Trichoptera reappearing in the lowest families of the Lepidoptera.

  • The term "biting-lice" is sometimes given to these parasites, in allusion to the mandibulate character of their mouth-parts, which serves to distinguish them at once from the true lice of the order Rhynchota in which the jaws are haustellate.

  • The tenth abdominal segment carries a pair of jointed cerci which are often elongate, and the feelers are always long, while the jaws are usually feeble and membranous, though the typical parts of a mandibulate mouth are present - mandibles, maxillae with inner and outer lobes and palps, and second maxillae (labium) whose lacinae are not fused to form a ligula.

  • A similar history must have been slowly brought about when this second mandibulate somite in its turn became agnathous and passed in front of the mouth.

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