Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a mandible or mandibles.
- noun An arthropod having mandibles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology
- Having mandibles, and thus able to bite, as an insect; of or pertaining to the Mandibulata: distinguished from
haustellate or suctorial. - Masticatory, as the jaws of an insect.
- Having a lower jaw, as nearly all vertebrates: opposed to emandibulate.
- noun A mandibulate insect, as a beetle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.
- noun (Zoöl.) An insect having mandibles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Provided with
mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects. - noun zoology An insect having mandibles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having mandibles
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Examples
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Ephemerida: May-flies: an ordinal term used for insects with net-veined wings, held vertically when at rest, not folded; mouth mandibulate, not functionally developed: thorax loosely agglutinated; abdomen with anal filaments: metamorphosis incomplete.
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Hymenoptera: membrane-winged: an ordinal term applied to insects with four membranous wings with few veins, the anterior usually larger than the posterior; mouth mandibulate; head free; thorax agglutinate, transformations complete.
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Coleoptera: sheath-winged: an order with the primaries coriaceous, used as a cover only, meeting in a straight line dorsally; mouth mandibulate; pro-thorax free; transformation complete: the beetles: the term has also been applied to the two elytra together.
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Mecoptera: long-winged: neuropterous insects with similar, large, unfolded wings; mouth mandibulate, prolonged into a beak: head free; thorax agglutinated; transformations complete: the scorpion flies or Panorpidae.
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Plecoptera or Plectoptera: plaited winged: an ordinal term applied to net-veined insects in which the secondaries are longitudinally folded beneath primaries; mouth mandibulate; body loosely jointed; prothorax free; metamorphosis incomplete: the term Plecoptera was used by Brauer for Perlidae; Plectoptera by Packard for the
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Isoptera: equal winged: an ordinal term for insects with four, similar, net-veined wings; mouth mandibulate; thoracic rings similar, loosely jointed metamorphosis incomplete: the Termitidae.
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Maxilla: without any qualifying adjective, the second pair of jaws in a mandibulate insect; the most persistent when the mouth is modified, and represented by some functional part in all insects in which the mouth structures are useful: second maxillae, = the labium, or third pair of jaws in a mandibulate insect.
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Mallophaga: wool-eaters: an ordinal term applied to biting lice: wingless: mandibulate; thoracic segments similar; no metamorphosis: = Lipoptera.
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Platyptera: flat and broad-winged: an ordinal term applied to insects with four net-veined wings, secondaries longitudinally folded beneath primaries; mouth mandibulate; prothorax free; transformations complete: Psocidae, Termitidae, Perlidae and Mallophaga.
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Labium: the lower lip: a compound structure which forms the floor of the mouth in mandibulate insects, behind the first maxilla and opposed to the labium; formed by a fusion in embryonic life of separate right and left maxilla-like halves: in some of its developments referred to as the tongue.
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