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HARMONICAS |
Mouth organs |
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AMORPHOZOA |
Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs,
as the sponges. |
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WHISTLE |
The mouth and throat; -- so called as being the organs
of whistling. |
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PROBOSCIS |
By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs
of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded. |
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STOPPED |
Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; --
said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). |
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ACONTIA |
Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of
nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of
certain Actiniae when irritated. |
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MANDIBLE |
The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects,
crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not.
See Illust. of Diptera. |
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GNATHASTEGITE |
One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the
outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth
organs. |
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TENTACULUM |
One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on
the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile
hair. |
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PEDIPALPUS |
One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In
some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate
in a claw. |
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MUTE |
Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete
closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; --
said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2. |
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HEAD |
The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the
brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the
higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. |
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ZOOID |
...p, as of
Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those
individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not develope... |
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LANGUAGE |
... specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice;
sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat
and mo... |
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CHELICERA |
One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by
a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are
homologous with the fal... |
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TRILL |
...pid
succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some
one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or... |
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PALPUS |
A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs
attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and
annelids; as, the ma... |
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LIP |
One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the
mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of
speech essenti... |
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INSECTA |
... that
have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air
by means of tracheae, opening by spiracles along the sides of the ... |
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CESTOIDEA |
... female
reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See
Tapeworm. ... |
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NEUROPTERA |
An order of hexapod insects having two pairs of
large, membranous, net-veined wings. The mouth organs are adapted for
chewing. They feed upon o... |
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FRICATIVE |
...h,
intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the
mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete... |
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IMPLOSION |
A sudden compression of the air in the mouth,
simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the
organs in uttering p, t, o... |
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MYRIAPODA |
... They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and
numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when
first ... |
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STOP |
..., or the
tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or
voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-st... |