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Definition of Mouthless
1. Adjective. Having no mouth or mouthlike opening.
Definition of Mouthless
1. a. Destitute of a mouth.
Definition of Mouthless
1. Adjective. Without a mouth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mouthless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mouthless
Literary usage of Mouthless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"Animalcules free-swimming or temporarily adherent, mouthless, finely and equally
... Accepted upon such terms, the mouthless condition of these aberrant ..."
2. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"... as such from the other unicellular animals which have not a special orifice
for the ingestion of food and constitute the mouthless Protozoa. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... mouthless Ciliate parasitic in the Frog's rectum; adult; X 100. a, a, the
numerous regularly dispersed nuclei. 5. The same ; an individual in process of ..."
4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1905)
"We shall possibly find the nearest analogues of the mammalian egg among the
mouthless mastigophora. Ninety-nine one-hundredths of the protozoa are provided ..."
5. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"... any minute animals or substances found within her sack; (2d), a female with
successive pairs of short-lived, mouthless males, inhabiting pouches on each ..."
6. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"Animalcules free-swimming or temporarily adherent, mouthless, finely and equally
... Accepted upon such terms, the mouthless condition of these aberrant ..."
7. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"... as such from the other unicellular animals which have not a special orifice
for the ingestion of food and constitute the mouthless Protozoa. ..."
8. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... mouthless Ciliate parasitic in the Frog's rectum; adult; X 100. a, a, the
numerous regularly dispersed nuclei. 5. The same ; an individual in process of ..."
9. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1905)
"We shall possibly find the nearest analogues of the mammalian egg among the
mouthless mastigophora. Ninety-nine one-hundredths of the protozoa are provided ..."
10. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"... any minute animals or substances found within her sack; (2d), a female with
successive pairs of short-lived, mouthless males, inhabiting pouches on each ..."
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