mentum

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On the Balance of Power: The Pres ident believes that Communist mo mentum, which picked up after Sputnik 1, has slackened.

From Time Magazine Archive

Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur.

From Time Magazine Archive

Body moderately elongated and covered with a long dark pubescence; spiracular disk squarely truncated, surrounded by five subequal stout lobes; mentum with five subequal teeth, the lateral one of either side not conspicuously reduced.Rhamphidaria.

From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Alexander, Charles P.

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

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

The mentum carries at its extremity a pair of lobes with sharp fangs.

From The Life-Story of Insects by Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert)