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cibarium

American  
[si-bair-ee-uhm] / sɪˈbɛər i əm /

noun

PLURAL

cibaria
  1. Entomology.  a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.


Other Word Forms

  • cibarial adjective

Etymology

Origin of cibarium

< New Latin, equivalent to Latin cib ( us ) food + -ārium -ary

Example Sentences

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A bushel of the best wheat of Campania, which was of the first quality, containing sixteen sextarii, yielded four sextarii of siligo, here seemingly used for the finest flour; half a bushel of flos, bolted flour; four sextarii of cibarium, seconds; and four sextarii of bran; thus giving an excess of four sextarii.

From Project Gutenberg

Tuber cibarium, 589.   "   magnatum, 590.   "   melanosporum, 590.

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I ought not to omit noticing the Tuber cibarium, a plant of the mushroom family, growing under ground, which furnishes the famous truffle, so celebrated in the annals of cooking, of which immense quantities are imported, chiefly from the South of France.

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The morel is Morchella esculenta, and Tuber cibarium is the common truffle.

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