haustellate

English

Etymology

See Haustellata.

Adjective

haustellate (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Having a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.

Noun

haustellate (plural haustellates)

1. 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 .