trophi

[ troh-fee ]

plural noun

, Entomology.

1. the mouthparts of an insect, including the labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium, and hypopharynx.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trophi¹

1820–30; < New Latin trophī < Greek trophoí, plural of trophós feeder, nurse, akin to tréphein to nourish

Example Sentences

The trophi are very complicated, and there are various details of structure not noticed or not mentioned by any of the writers upon the subject hitherto.

From Project Gutenberg

Filamentary appendages, none: labrum, with the upper part highly bullate: trophi, various: olfactory orifices, more or less prominent: caudal appendages, uniarticulate and spinose, or none.

From Project Gutenberg

In several of its characters, such as the absence of calcareous valves, the broad blunt end of the peduncle, the spineless cirri, the small size of the trophi, and more especially the absence of transverse stri� in those muscles, which in mature cirripedes are thus furnished, we see that this genus is in some degree in an embryonic condition.

From Project Gutenberg

There is quite as close, if not closer affinity to Ibla, in the following peculiarities,—in the curved œsophagus,—in the general character of the cirri and trophi, with the olfactory orifices in one species in some degree prominent,—in the multi-articulated caudal appendages,—and in the plainly-articulated penis, with its elongated unarticulated support, though both these characters are exaggerated in Ibla.

From Project Gutenberg

The muscles of the several trophi have transverse stri�, and are the strongest and most conspicuous of any in the body.

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