Thesaurus / mentum
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Mentum semicirculare antice rotundatum margine antico emarginato.
Mentum semicirculare antice rotundatum medio emarginato sive edentulo.
Lorum: in bees: the angular piece upon which the sub-mentum rests.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGYJOHN. B. SMITH
Mental suture: in Coleoptera, the line between mentum and gula.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGYJOHN. B. SMITH
Summit of spire heterostrophic; a projection, the mentum, between head and foot; operculum present.
In the genus Ortonia, Signoret, the female possesses a rostrum and mentum.
Rostrum and mentum absent; mouth represented by a minute orifice between the second pair of feet.
Rostrum and mentum present, very small; mentum triarticulate, with a few hairs at the tip.
What all authors have agreed in calling the mentum is very noticeable, being large and broad, and trilobed behind.
But the -mentum is a mere termination, and has nothing to do with mens at all.
WORDS RELATED TO MENTUM
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