Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A proboscis in certain insects that is used for sucking liquids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sucking-organ of an insect or a crustacean; a suctorial proboscis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The sucking proboscis of various insects. See
lepidoptera , anddiptera .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sucking organ , in the form of aproboscis , in manyinsects andcrustaceans
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, diminutive of Latin haustrum, scoop on a water wheel, from haurīre, to draw up.]
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Examples
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Antlia: the spiral tongue or haustellum of Lepidoptera.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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We will suppose that a change takes place in a particular orchid, that the nectary recedes to a greater distance from the point to which the insect can penetrate, and so an advantage is given to those insects in which the haustellum is of a length above the average.
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The insect derives an advantage from its increased haustellum, but what advantage does the plant derive from its retiring nectary?
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