Definition of Mandibulate

1. Adjective. Having mandibles.

Partainyms: Mandible

Definition of Mandibulate

1. a. Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.

2. n. An insect having mandibles.

Definition of Mandibulate

1. Adjective. Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects. ¹

2. Noun. (zoology) An insect having mandibles ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mandibulate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Mandibulate

1. An insect having mandibles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandibulate

mandibular hinge position
mandibular injuries
mandibular joint
mandibular lymph node
mandibular movement
mandibular nerve
mandibular nodes
mandibular notch
mandibular process
mandibular prosthesis
mandibular prosthesis implantation
mandibular reflex
mandibular tongue
mandibular torus
mandibulary
mandibulate (current term)
mandibulated
mandibulates
mandibulectomies
mandibulectomy
mandibuliform
mandibulo-oculofacial
mandibuloacral dysostosis
mandibulofacial
mandibulofacial dysostosis
mandibulofacial dysotosis syndrome
mandibulofacial dysplasia
mandibulohyoid
mandibulomaxillary fixation

Literary usage of Mandibulate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"NEURO'PTERA (Gr. nerve-winged), an order of mandibulate insects, having four nearly equal and membranous wings, ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"(b) A divisi on of Anoplura, including mandibulate lice, as the bird-lice or Mallophaga. [The term was first used in the former sense by Clairville (1798), ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The first mandibulate insect had the thoracic segments similarly developed, all of about the same size and each of them free ; but the advent of wings gave ..."

4. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... rarely lost; hind wings membranous, folded longitudinally and often transversely, or wanting; longitudinal veins predominant; larva mandibulate, ..."

5. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Mouth mandibulate, that is, with the normal insect jaws, fitted for chewing. This order includes the earwigs, cockroaches, stick and leaf insects, ..."

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