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

I compared the cirri and trophi with those of a common variety, and could detect not the smallest difference.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

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

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

All the spines of the trophi are in some degree doubly serrated.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

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.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

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 A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles