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Mandible (arthropod mouthpart)

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have long, broad, serrated jaws, used for digging, collecting food, fighting and cutting, and are probably the most important work tool ants possess. Ants typically bite each other when fighting. Some ants use mandibles to injure the enemy and squirt poison into the wound.
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have strong, bristly mandibles, which have a row of teeth in all centipedes except for members of the order Geophilomorpha. Millipedes have small mandibles, their only functioning mouthparts, as the
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are essentially their namesake trait. In some tropical species they can be up to 10 cm, as long as the body of the beetle. These mandibles are primarily used in combat.
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Latin Dictionary Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary revised by Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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used either for biting or cutting and holding food. Mandibles are often simply called jaws. Mandibles are present in the extant
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the tissues of the prey. When this process is over, they suck the digested tissue through the mandibles.
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have functional mandibles in the adult stage. The most notable example are members of the family
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make their nests in various wooden structures, which they hollow out with their sharp mandibles.
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have sharp mandibles that are better adapted for fighting than obtaining food or nursing the
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and many other plant-eating insects have sharp-edged mandibles that move side to side. Most
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have a pair of mandibles that typically consist of an enlarged basal segment (coxa) and a
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mandibles varies from species to species depending on the food preferences. For example,
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have slender mandibles up to 2.5 cm long, half as long as the insect's main body.
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use their mandibles to mix droplets of water with clay while constructing a nest.
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use sharp mandibles to cut leaves in side-to-side motions. Only a few
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Pair of mouthparts used either for biting or cutting and holding food
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larvae have hollow mandibles, which can inject digestive fluid to
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mandibles are as diverse in form as their food. For instance,
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Stag beetle with mandibles modified no longer used in feeding
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lack mandibles as they mainly feed on nectar from flowers.
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beetles have extended mandibles to seize or crush prey.
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mandible diagram. 1. Molar process; 2. Spine row; 3.
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arthropod
mouthparts
subphyla
Myriapoda
Crustacea
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