mentum
Americannoun
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menta
plural
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Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
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Botany. a chinlike protuberance formed by the sepals and the base of the column in some orchids.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mentum
1685–95; < New Latin, Latin mentum chin, akin to mouth
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On the Balance of Power: The Pres ident believes that Communist mo mentum, which picked up after Sputnik 1, has slackened.
From Time Magazine Archive
Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Submental peduncle: in Coleoptera, the prolonged portion of the gula supporting the mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Anthobian: feeding on flowers; applied to certain lamellicorn Coleoptera in which the labium extends beyond the mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Epilobe: of mentum in Carabidae, really corresponds to a partially divided ligula: a lateral appendage of a bilobed mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
The forms mednama, menta, usually in the second state of the initial, are used for interrogative and dependent sentences:— A vednama cara? shall I love?
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry
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