Usually means: Underside of insect's head segment.
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  1. submentum: Merriam-Webster
  2. submentum: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. submentum: Wiktionary
  5. Submentum, submentum: Dictionary.com
  6. Submentum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. submentum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Submentum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. submentum: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Submentum: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (submentum)

▸ noun:  (zoology) The basal part of the labium of insects, which bears the mentum.

Similar:
labium, promesonotum, subgena, mesonotum, metanotum, palpiger, mandibulate, notum, mesoscutum, mask, more...

Opposite:
suprahyoid, upper jaw

Types:
chin, jaw, mentum, more...

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Similar:
labium, promesonotum, subgena, mesonotum, metanotum, palpiger, mandibulate, notum, mesoscutum, mask, more...

Opposite:
suprahyoid, upper jaw

Types:
chin, jaw, mentum, more...



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