haustellate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See Haustellata.
Adjective[edit]
haustellate (not comparable)
- (zoology) Having a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.
Noun[edit]
haustellate (plural haustellates)
- A haustellate insect.
- 1853, John George Wood, Bees, page 19:
- Bees form part of that section of insects called mandibulate insects, i.e., insects which eat with jaws, in contradistinction to the haustellates, or insects which suck up liquid food through a trunk .