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(Latin: to draw out, to drink; to draw water, to swallow)
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haustellata
An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis.
A proboscis is a hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used when taking in food or drink; a snout; a trunk.
haustellate
1. Having a haustellum or provided with a haustellum or sucking proboscis (mouth and/or nose).
2. Adapted for sucking; such as, the mouthparts of certain insects.
2. Adapted for sucking; such as, the mouthparts of certain insects.
haustellum
In certain insects, a proboscis adapted for sucking blood or juices of plants.
haustorial
A reference to or resembling haustorium.
haustorium (s), haustoria (pl)
1. A small sucker of a parasitic plant.
2. An absorbent organ originating on fungal hypha of a parasite and penetrating into a cell of the host.
2. An absorbent organ originating on fungal hypha of a parasite and penetrating into a cell of the host.
It is most often associated with obligate parasites but is produced also by some facultative parasites.
haustrum (s), haustra (pl)
Any one of the pouches, or sacculations (saclike expansions), in the wall of the colon.
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