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Example sentences for "mandibles"

Lexicographically close words:
mandatum; mande; mandelic; mandement; mandible; mandibular; mandibulate; mandioc; mandioca; mando
  1. Lucanidae, variability of the mandibles in the male.

  2. In Lethrus, moreover, a beetle belonging to the same great division of the Lamellicorns, the males are known to fight, but are not provided with horns, though their mandibles are much larger than those of the female.

  3. The mandibles or jaws are sometimes used for this purpose; thus the male Corydalis cornutus (a neuropterous insect in some degree allied to the Dragon flies, etc.

  4. Lucanus elaphus, use of mandibles of; large jaws of male.

  5. The great mandibles of the male Lucanidae are extremely variable both in size and structure, and in this respect resemble the horns on the head and thorax of many male Lamellicorns and Staphylinidae.

  6. Tenthredinae) "have been found fighting together, with their mandibles locked.

  7. He says that the males search eagerly and fight for the possession of the females; and he accounts through such contests for the mandibles of the males being in certain species larger than those of the females.

  8. Chile--a splendid beetle belonging to the same family--has enormously developed mandibles (Fig.

  9. The two sexes of Lethrus cephalotes (one of the Lamellicorns) inhabit the same burrow; and the male has larger mandibles than the female.

  10. Although the mandibles of the common stag-beetle, and probably of many other species, are used as efficient weapons for fighting, it is doubtful whether their great size can thus be accounted for.

  11. But the mandibles were not strong enough to pinch my finger so as to cause actual pain.

  12. The beak, which is one inch in length, and very thick, has its two mandibles curving in opposite directions, and crossing each other at the points, whence the name.

  13. The birds of this group have the beak conical and pointed, in general rather strong, with both the mandibles moveable, and fit for peeling and cleaning grain.

  14. In correlation with the great breadth of the posterior part of the cranium, the rami of the mandibles diverge widely posteriolaterally and the angular processes are remarkably elongated.

  15. They marched into the blazing orifices they had opened in the hills, snapping with their mandibles at the leaping flames, springing at the glowing tinder.

  16. But it would die, making terrible sounds of torment as the vicious mandibles of the army ants found crevices in its armour.

  17. An angry, foot-long ant stood before him, its mandibles extended threateningly, while its antennae waved wildly in the air.

  18. The mandibles clashed, strange sounds came from the beast.

  19. Two pairs of ferocious mandibles stretched before its fierce mouth-parts.

  20. By thousands and millions, myriads upon myriads, they were foraging the country, clambering upon every eminence, descending into every depression, their antennae waving restlessly and their mandibles forever threateningly extended.

  21. No doubt the presence of the Nautilus, even more fearsome than itself, and which it couldn't grip with its mandibles or the suckers on its arms.

  22. I think the horn-covered mandibles of one of these squid are entangled in the blades.

  23. They snapped with their mandibles at the leaping flames, and sprang to grapple with the burning coals.

  24. Its mandibles gaped wide; the poison fangs were unsheathed.

  25. Two pairs of mandibles stretched before its mouth-parts; two eyes glittered in the semi-darkness of the burrow.

  26. An angry, foot-long ant stood before him, its mandibles extended threateningly, while a shrill stridulation filled the air.

  27. But its horrible gaping mandibles added a good three feet more.

  28. He was fourteen inches long, this warrior, and his mandibles were fierce and strong.

  29. The noise was actually the tearing of its shell between the mandibles of the victor.

  30. Twin tapering antennae appeared, and then a monster beetle lurched into the open space, its ghastly mandibles gaping sidewise.

  31. The class Coleoptera now approaches the Neuroptera, and on each side the boundary we find larvae digging pitfalls in the sand to catch their prey, and having tubular mandibles to extract its juices when caught.

  32. His mandibles were ready, and the only difference that I could see was that he could make better speed than others of his caste.

  33. One by one, and then shoulder to shoulder, these Cyclopean Maxims lumbered forth to battle, and soon my boots were covered in spite of the grease, all sinking their mandibles deep into the leather.

  34. A foot away, a flat mat of ants, mandibles outward, was spread, over which every passing individual stepped.

  35. Again and again I saw these little springtails skip through the very scimitar mandibles of a soldier, while the workers paid no attention to them.

  36. Sometimes, when I carefully pried open one section and looked deep within, I could see large chambers with the larvæ in piles, besides being held in the mandibles of the components of the walls and ceilings.

  37. Both mandibles internally lamellate, the edge of the lower much incurved.

  38. There are soldiers as well as workers, the soldiers having powerful mandibles mounted on enormous heads.

  39. He is feared for the bold appearance of his long mandibles which branch like stag's horns and which the uninstructed take for dangerous pincers.

  40. The male does not manage this female, a strong objector, save by seizing her mandibles with his pincers.

  41. The male frigate-bird is jet black all over the body; having a red bill, very long, vertically flattened, and with the mandibles abruptly hooked downwards at the point.

  42. In the Cockroach the mandibles and maxillæ are the only important instruments of mastication.

  43. In Dytiscus the mandibles are perforate at the base, and not at the tip.

  44. The mandibles are already as complete as those of the Cockroach, which they closely resemble, but the maxillæ are stunted cylinders formed mainly of simple rings, and very like the antennæ.

  45. The mouth of the Cockroach is enclosed between the labrum in front, and the labium behind, while it is bounded laterally by the mandibles and first pair of maxillæ.

  46. The mandibles and maxillæ act, as he tells us, alternately, one set closing as the others part.

  47. The opposable inner edges are armed with strong tooth-like processes of dense chitin, which interlock when the mandibles close; those towards the tip of the mandible are sharp, while others are blunt, as if for crushing.

  48. The mandibles form a strong pair of blunt scissors.

  49. The mandibles (Mn) are not much altered, and are still used for biting, as well as for kneading wax and other domestic work.

  50. The mandibles (Mn) are also rudimentary and perfectly useless.

  51. He considered that the mandibles and first maxillæ of Arthropods were the homologues of the upper and lower jaws of Vertebrates, adducing as confirmatory evidence the fact that in snakes the rami are separate.

  52. For Crustacea he established the homologies now accepted, of the mandibles with the mandibles of insects, of the first and second pairs of maxillæ with the parts so named in insects, and so on.

  53. The clamor of the stream often drowns the song of the bird, the movement of his mandibles being seen when not a sound from his music-box can be heard.

  54. While scaling the air he did not sing, but having reached the proper altitude, he opened his mandibles and let his ditty filtrate through the ether like a shower of spray.

  55. The tips of the two mandibles are long, curved, and pointed, crossing each other at their ends.

  56. The mandibles of the former are flesh-coloured, those of the latter black.

  57. The mandibles are visible or not, according as they are exposed or withdrawn, and their existence may depend on the sex, as, so far as my material justifies conclusion, they are visible in the male only.

  58. Horn could not entirely make out the mandibles as described by Le Conte, and rather concluded that what Le Conte described is really one of the granules which occur behind the labrum.

  59. The second antennae, mandibles and two pairs of maxillae may also be claimed as of malacostracan type.

  60. The Snakes, having movable maxillary bones, and mandibles not joined by a symphidis, are enabled to swallow other animals of apparently greater bulk than their own.

  61. The Fissirostral Passerinae are characterised by a broad, short bill, flattened horizontally, and slightly hooked; mandibles slightly concave; mouth very wide.

  62. It is neat and compact in form; its bill resembles that of the Goldfinch, but is more compressed, the two mandibles in some specimens meeting only at the base.

  63. In the Saurians the maxillae are fixed and immovable, and the mandibles are joined by an osseous suture, so that the cleft of the mouth can be dilated only in the usual vertical direction.

  64. Mr. Evans has even detected that the mandibles were provided with a few slender teeth.

  65. In the beginning of spring, after repeated and careful surveys, she fixes upon a piece of wood suitable for her purpose, and with her strong mandibles begins the process of boring.

  66. With her strong mandibles she cuts without intermission in a curve line, so as to detach a triangular portion.

  67. With its mandibles it pierces some part of this leaf, and afterwards gradually gnaws a curved line, marking the form of the piece which it wishes to detach.

  68. This led us to observe their operations more minutely; and we soon discovered that on issuing from the hole each bee carried out in its mandibles a piece of clay.

  69. A question will here suggest itself to the curious inquirer, how the moth, which is not, like the caterpillar, furnished with mandibles for gnawing, can find its way through so hard a wall.

  70. Each ant, then, carried between its teeth the pellet of earth it had formed by scraping with the end of its mandibles the bottom of its abode, a circumstance which I have frequently witnessed in open day.

  71. Latreille observed Anobium striatum produce the sound in question by a stroke of its mandibles upon the wood, which was answered by a similar noise from within it.

  72. This done, it lets go its hold with so violent a jerk that the sound produced by its mandibles may be readily heard, and the leap takes place.

  73. The other four needles consist of a pair of mandibles which are lance-shaped at the tip and a heavier pair of maxillæ, the tips of which are serrate on one edge.

  74. When the flea is feeding, the epipharynx and mandibles are thrust into the skin of the victim, the labium serving as a guide.

  75. The mandibles have the sides serrate like a two-edged saw.

  76. The hypopharynx is united to the labium, the mandibles are wanting and the maxillæ are very much reduced so that the insect is unable to pierce the tough skin of animals.

  77. They had scarcely lain a minute on the earth before one of the largest workers seized upon a bead, and with some difficulty clipped it with its mandibles and trotted back at a great pace to the nest.

  78. They bore in their mandibles objects which I presently found to be the males and females of white ants (Termes flavipes), which were filling the air, during and after the rain, in marriage flight.

  79. An ant, whose brain has been perforated by the pointed mandibles of an amazon, remains as though nailed to its place; a shudder runs from time to time through its body, and one of its legs is lifted at regular intervals.

  80. The besieging army forms a complete ring round the hostile nest, and the besiegers hold this with mandibles open and antennae drawn back, without going nearer.

  81. I have never seen a capsule severed from its stalk by cutting alone, and the mandibles of this ant are perhaps incompetent to perform such a task.

  82. Holding the grain in her mandibles well above the surface, she breaks into what I may describe with sufficient accuracy as 'a trot,' and with little further interruption reaches the disk and disappears within the gate.

  83. Further, in the bugs, the labium is long and tubular, while the mandibles and maxillae are often modified into sharp, stiff bristles that work within the tube, the whole thus forming a combined piercing and sucking arrangement.


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