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Definition of Mandibulate
1. Adjective. Having mandibles.
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandibulate
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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