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Any part of the mouth of an insect or other arthropod especially one adapted to a specific way of feeding
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mouthpart
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. any part of the mouth of an insect or other arthropod especially one adapted to a specific way of feeding
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context usually in plural English) An appendage-like structure on the outside of an insect's or other arthropod's mouth, serving to manipulate and masticate food.
Usage examples of mouthpart.
A scale insect sucks out plant juices with mouthparts like a fine straw, often injecting toxic substances or viruses.
Once imbedded, a tick is very hard to dislodge and will readily leave its mouthparts in the skin if pulled away roughly.
Some feed on plant stems and the undersides of leaves with their piercing-sucking mouthparts, causing stippling or yellowing of the leaves, which then drop off.
The bent end was concave and sprouted four blunt metal prongs about a quarter of an inch long, making it look like the mouthparts of a tremendously magnified chigger.
Their glittering multifaceted eyes stare at the camera while their complex mouthparts work busily, munching through still-struggling victims.
A magnificent machine, Durga thought as he saw the hulk--a giant cargo container with a front end of moving mechanical mouthparts and turbolaser turrets to blast asteroids to rubble.
The Weavers complicated mouthparts unhinged, its inner jaw flexing, something between a mandible and a black ivory trap.
A green crab was ensconced on the moist sand by his feet, using one claw to shove food into its mouthparts like a miner panning for gold.
The tiniest trickles of blood ooze out from the imperfect seal where the anophelii mouthparts puncture it.
They would stab their mouthparts through the skin to suck out the blood that sustained them, and the poison they injected into Silverhair's skin to keep the blood flowing freely caused swelling and intolerable itching.