The fans, or brushes, create currents in the water that direct food toward the larvae’s mouthparts and help stuff the food into their deeply concealed mouths.
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Mouthpart
Synonyms for "mouthpart"
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Translations
11 translations across 9 languages.
Breton
1 entries- pezhioù genoù noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 口器 noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
Dutch
1 entries- monddeel noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
French
1 entries- pièce buccale noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
German
3 entries- Mundgliedmaße noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
- Mundteil noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
- Mundwerkzeug noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
Greek
1 entries- στοματικό μόριο noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
Italian
1 entries- apparato boccale noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
Spanish
1 entries- pieza bucal noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
Welsh
1 entries- gên-rannau noun (part of the anatomy of insects)
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