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Definition of Trophi
1. n. pl. The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
Definition of Trophi
1. Noun. The mouthparts of an organism such as an insect or a member of the Rotifera ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trophi
1. the mouth parts of an insect [n]
Medical Definition of Trophi
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trophi
Literary usage of Trophi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Entomologist edited by Benjamin Dann Walsh, Charles V Riley, George Vasey (1880)
"The first form of trophi seems to be correlated with membraneous legs. ...
And when the trophi are changed, and the second or ordinary form assumed, ..."
2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1881)
"Still it did not have the appearance of a mine of a larva having the "first" form
of trophi ; the eaten portion did not all lie close to the cuticle, ..."
3. British Entomology: Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by John Curtis by John Curtis (1840)
"trophi testaceous. Head with 2 foveae on the crown and ¡mother between the antenna:.
Thorax a little broader than the head, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Oral funnel produced into a fine tube hanging freely into a pharyngeal cup,
containing the uncinate trophi. Body- wall usually traversed by a network of ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"(Iv.) trophi uncinate: 5. ... Oral funnel produced into a fine tube hanging freely
into a pharyngeal cup, containing the uncinate trophi. ..."
6. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"Corona obliquely transverse; velum of interrupted curves and clusters, usually
with a marginal band surrounding the mouth ; trophi ..."
7. An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects by William Kirby, William Spence (1826)
"When, in a perfect mouth, the trophi are not capable of being much pushed ...
When the mouth wants any of the trophi, or they exist in it only as rudiments. ..."
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