hypostome

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of certain mouth appendages of some insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and hydrozoa; in particular

   “This mode of attachment and support of the hypostome in proparian trilobites is also shown by Öpik's work (1938, and references) and by Whittington (1941b, p. 514-517) and Evitt and Whittington (1953).”

2. isim The ventral mouthpart plate in trilobites;
3. isim The barbed attachment structure associated with the mouthparts of parasitic arachnids (e.g. ticks);
4. isim The oral tip surrounded by tentacles in hydrozoan cnidarians.