Crossword-Solution: HAUSTELLUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Haustellum | n. | The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera. |
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| CADDIS fly, mouth part of | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Discharge
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Sentences with HAUSTELLUM (2)
Haustellum: a sucker: applied to that portion of the mouth of a sucking insect through which liquid food is drawn into the gullet.
One of the circumstances that first awakened our curiosity with regard to insects, was the manner in which a fly contrives to suck up through its narrow sucker (_haustellum_) a bit of dry lump-sugar; for the small crystals are not only unfitted to pass, from their angularity, but adhere too firmly together to be separated by any force the insect can exert.