英语词汇“mouth hook”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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mouth hook

mouth hook n. Entomology 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.

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1935 R. E. Snodgrass Princ. Insect Morphol. xii. 313 In the higher cyclorrhaphous Diptera the usual mouth parts are entirely suppressed in the larval stage, and the only external feeding organs of the maggot are a pair of strong mouth hooks movable in a vertical plane.

1968 Times 17 Oct. 18/6 The larvae usually feed on the mucus in the nose or throat and are equipped with powerful mouth-hooks, which they use to scrape the mucus membrane and encourage it to secrete more freely.

1992 Independent 6 Jan. 1/2 Fruit-fly maggots jump by curling their bodies into a ball and gripping their posteriors tightly with a pair of curved mouth hooks.

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单词	mouth hook
释义	> as lemmas mouth hook mouth hook n. Entomology 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. ΚΠ 1935 R. E. Snodgrass Princ. Insect Morphol. xii. 313 In the higher cyclorrhaphous Diptera the usual mouth parts are entirely suppressed in the larval stage, and the only external feeding organs of the maggot are a pair of strong mouth hooks movable in a vertical plane. 1968 Times 17 Oct. 18/6 The larvae usually feed on the mucus in the nose or throat and are equipped with powerful mouth-hooks, which they use to scrape the mucus membrane and encourage it to secrete more freely. 1992 Independent 6 Jan. 1/2 Fruit-fly maggots jump by curling their bodies into a ball and gripping their posteriors tightly with a pair of curved mouth hooks. extracted from mouthn. < as lemmas
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