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单词 mandibulate
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mandibulateadj.n.

Brit. /manˈdɪbjᵿleɪt/, U.S. /mænˈdɪbjəˌleɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin mandibula , -ate suffix2.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin mandibula (see mandible n.) + -ate suffix2. In sense A. 1 after scientific Latin Mandibulata ( J. P. de Clairville Entomologie helvetique (1798) I. 44).
Zoology.
A. adj.
1.
a. Of an insect: having biting and chewing, rather than sucking, mouthparts; characterized by the presence of such mouthparts; cf. haustellate adj. Also: having large mandibles.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [adjective] > of head > relating to or forming trophi > provided with mandibles
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 462 The maxillæ of the mandibulate hexapods.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xx. 316 Metabolians..are considered..as constituting two Sections which are denominated Haustellate and Mandibulate Insects.
1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects v. 92 The strongly mandibulate form which prevails among the larvae of Coleoptera.
1939 Ecol. Monogr. 9 293 The more primitive genera of the Nasutermitinae..with mandibulate soldiers are all confined to tropical America.
1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) I. iii. 32 The Lepismatidae have acquired an additional anterior articulation which..enables the mandible to move by adduction and abduction in the transverse plane rather as it does in most mandibulate Pterygotes.
1988 Zool. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 94 105 These methods could readily be applied..to any other mandibulate insects with incisors resembling those considered here.
b. Of, belonging to, or designating a group (Mandibulata) of arthropods characterized as possessing, or having primitively possessed, hinged mandibles as distinct from jointed chelicerae, and comprising the insects, crustaceans, and myriapods.
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1938 R. E. Snodgrass in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 97 vi. 107 The protocephalon is unquestionably the primitive head of all the mandibulate arthropods.
1938 R. E. Snodgrass in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 97 vi. 117 The Crustacea represent the first offshoot from the mandibulate section of the arthropod stem.
1970 Biol. Bull. 139 520 (title) Control of molting in mandibulate and chelicerate arthropods by ecdysones.
1985 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 236 1 (title) An α2-macroglobulin-like activity in the blood of chelicerate and mandibulate arthropods.
1994 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 25 367 The gene sequence trees support a mandibulate clade composed of insects (as representative unirames) and crustaceans.
2. Of a mouth or mouthparts: adapted for biting and chewing; formed as mandibles.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > adapted for mastication
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1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xx. 316 The instrument of suction in a Haustellate mouth consists of pieces..analogous to those employed in mastication in a Mandibulate one.
1838 Penny Cycl. X. 494/2 Hemiptera..with mandibulate mouths.
1927 F. Balfour-Browne Insects i. 24 Such mouth-parts, adapted for biting and chewing, are described as ‘mandibulate’.
1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) I. iv. 32 There are those with mandibulate or biting mouthparts such as the Orthopteroid orders and the Coleoptera.
1992 Nature 22 Oct. 724/1 Aculeate Hymenoptera share many other traits that may affect sociality, such as provisioning at nests, powerful flight, mandibulate mouthparts, and stings.
B. n.
A mandibulate insect (now rare); a mandibulate arthropod.
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1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Mandibulate, a mandibulate insect, as a beetle.
1938 R. E. Snodgrass in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 97 vi. 117 The distinctive feature of the early mandibulates, however, was the presence of a pair of jaws, the mandibles, developed from the bases of the appendages of the first postcephalic somite.
1994 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 25 365 Within the euarthropods, chelicerates is the sister clade to the mandibulates.
1995 C. Nielsen Animal Evol. xx. 161 The compound eyes are innervated from the protocerebrum in both mandibulates and chelicerates.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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