trophi

American  

[troh-fee] / ˈtroʊ fi /

plural noun

Entomology.

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

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Etymology

Origin of trophi

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

This species comes very close, as far as the characters derived from the trophi serve, to the L. truncata, though readily distinguished from that species by the shape of the valves.

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The mouth is now seated some way anteriorly to the limbs, is large and probosciformed, and is, I presume, still destitute of trophi.

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The two lower segments are laterally united, and open into each other, the prominence of the mouth being thus caused: this condition appears to me curious, and is, to a certain limited extent, intermediate between those articulated animals which have their trophi soldered into a proboscis, and those furnished with entirely free masticatory or prehensile organs.

From Project Gutenberg

The trophi surround a cavity—the supra-œsophageal cavity—in the middle of which, between the mandibles is seated the orifice of the œsophagus.

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