Use of the word mentum in a sentence example

mentum

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Summit of spire heterostrophic; a projection, the mentum, between head and foot; operculum present. [Please select]

Anthobian: feeding on flowers; applied to certain lamellicorn Coleoptera in which the labium extends beyond the mentum. [Please select]

Buccal fissure: the mouth slit or opening: the opening on each side of the mentum. [Please select]

Epilobe: of mentum in Carabidae, really corresponds to a partially divided ligula: a lateral appendage of a bilobed mentum. [Please select]

Hypopharyngeal sclerites: in bees, a pair of strap-like pieces along the hypopharynx to the mentum: see also epipharyngeal sclerites. [Please select]

Lorum: in bees: the angular piece upon which the sub-mentum rests. [Please select]

Subglossa: in Odonata; a sclerite between the two halves of the mentum (Graber): is really the true mentum. [Please select]

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