mouth hook
Entomology
noun
Each of a pair of claw-like sclerites, one on either side of the mouth, that function as feeding apparatus in the larvae of dipterous flies of the division (or suborder) Cyclorrhapha.
Origin
1930s.
- Spenser, Edmund
- Spenserian
- Spenserian stanza
- spent
- spent tan
- sperm
- spermaceti
- spermatheca
- spermatic
- spermatically
- spermatic cord
- spermatid
- spermatidal
- spermato-
- spermatocyte
- spermatogenesis
- spermatogonial
- spermatogonium
- spermatophore
- spermatophyte
- spermatophytic
- spermatozoal
- spermatozoan
- spermatozoid
- spermatozoon