mandibulate

[ man-dib-yuh-lit, -leyt ]

adjective

1. having mandibles.

noun

1. Entomology. a mandibulate arthropod of the subphylum Mandibulata, including water fleas, fairy shrimp, millipedes, and centipedes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mandibulate¹

First recorded in 1820–30, mandibulate is from the New Latin word mandibulātus having mandibles. See mandible, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

We expect to find fossils of that have persisted from more ancient times, and I'm hopeful we will one day find the ancestral type of both the mandibulate and chelicerate nervous system ground patterns.

From Scientific American

Some of the insects of this order are highly specialized, and their mouth-parts are fitted both for biting and sucking, and in this respect they connect the mandibulate and haustellate insects.

From Project Gutenberg

Neither, on the other hand, for the same reasons, could the mouth of the Hemiptera be modified into a mandibulate type like that of the Coleoptera.

From Project Gutenberg

A similar history must have been slowly brought about when this second mandibulate somite in its turn became agnathous and passed in front of the mouth.

From Project Gutenberg

In the structure of the digestive system, beetles resemble most other mandibulate insects, the food-canal consisting of gullet, crop, gizzard, mid-gut or stomach, intestine and rectum.

From Project Gutenberg