How to Use mouthpart in a Sentence

mouthpart

noun

• Now the fate of these trees—and our ability to defend them—rests in the mouthparts of a tiny gray moth.
  — Sam Schipani, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• Twisting or jerking can cause the mouthparts to break off and remain in the skin.
  — Lisa Haney, Fox News, 7 July 2017
• The adult female beetle lays her eggs in the far end of the twig, then uses her very sharp mouthparts to score the small branch around and around.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 20 Oct. 2017
• Perhaps most weirdly, though, the feeding mouthparts remain down at the base of the neck.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2014
• A tick’s entire life is the rapacious search for a living being to sink its mouthparts into.
  — Dave Taft, New York Times, 8 June 2017
• But the tick that covertly slid its pointy barbed mouthparts into an unlucky 66-year-old Yonkers resident was something new.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 28 June 2019
• Along with anal drumming and scraping, the caterpillars vibrate via their mouthparts, either by drumming or scraping them from side to side on the leaf.
  — Mary Bates, National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2016
• As Gabbatiss reports, instead of the usual ant mouthparts, Vladi has two large mandibular blades.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
• Scales Adult females look like hard or soft bumps on stems, leaves, or fruit; males are minute flying insects and larvae are tiny, soft, crawling insects with threadlike mouthparts.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2018
• Scales Adult females look like hard or soft bumps on stems, leaves, or fruit, males are minute flying insects, and larvae are tiny, soft, crawling insects with threadlike mouthparts.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 3 June 2016
• Known as an assassin bug, Sycanus uses its mouthpart to stab its insect prey, including the fire caterpillar, one of the most important pests of oil palm trees.
  — Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Science | AAAS, 11 July 2019
• When the material gets wet, however, their needle-like mouthparts slip right through.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2019
• But the sensation is uniquely tactile, not at all unpleasant, as thousands of soft, plump grubs, each the size of a grain of rice, wriggle against your skin, tiny mouthparts gently poking your flesh.
  — Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
• Their mouthparts bruise then suck sap from the foliage of flowering plants, trees, evergreens, roses and shrubs, vegetables and houseplants.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 24 June 2019
• Lots of flies pose a mild nuisance — like the fruit fly on the left — but the knife-like mouthparts of horse flies make their bites especially painful, according to the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2018
• The different resulting proteins would each have their own effect on what parts of the genetic code are turned on or off—leading to a male with huge mouthparts and a female without, for instance.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
• The different resulting proteins would each have their own effect on what parts of the genetic code are turned on or off—leading to a male with huge mouthparts and a female without, for instance.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
• Researchers studied the shrimps’ key anatomical features, like the legs, mouthparts and shells, according to a statement by ZooKeys publisher Pensoft.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 13 June 2018
• Because moths had already developed strawlike mouthparts, one group was able to exploit the novel food source, and evolved into butterflies.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 23 Oct. 2019
• Technically speaking, bugs are not synonymous with insects but are a subset of them: those which possess mouthparts that pierce and suck (as opposed to, say, caterpillars and termites, whose mouths are built, like ours, to chew).
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2011
• Their mouthparts bruise then suck sap from foliage including flowering plants, trees, evergreens, roses and shrubs, vegetables and house plants.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 16 June 2017
• Once the plant surface is covered, insects have a really difficult time inserting either their mouthparts or ovipositors into the plants to do damage.
  — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 16 June 2017
• The insect had a curved body and head for reaching inside flowers to feed, and its mouthparts include leglike appendages for collecting and transporting pollen similar to those of modern beetle pollinators.
  — Stephenie Livingston, Science | AAAS, 11 Nov. 2019
• Looking at the shape of their mouthparts, the team predicted that the nematodes had different lifestyles; some were adapted for grazing on microbes, some were designed for predation and others were set up for parasitizing a host animal.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019

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