Definitions for menta

menta men·tum

Spelling: [men-tuh m]
IPA: /ˈmɛn təm/

Menta is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in menta (aemnt).

Definitions for menta

noun

  1. Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
  2. Botany. a chinlike protuberance formed by the sepals and the base of the column in some orchids.

Origin of menta

1685-95; New Latin, Latin mentum chin, akin to mouth

Examples for menta

The part in this work regarded as the mentum, does not in all cases accord with what MM.

The mentum carries at its extremity a pair of lobes with sharp fangs.

Buccal fissure: the mouth slit or opening: the opening on each side of the mentum.

Gulo-mental: includes the region covered by the gulag and mentum.

Anthobian: feeding on flowers; applied to certain lamellicorn Coleoptera in which the labium extends beyond the mentum.

Our mentum may generally be known by its situation between the hinges and base of the Maxill.

But the -mentum is a mere termination, and has nothing to do with mens at all.

Subglossa: in Odonata; a sclerite between the two halves of the mentum (Graber): is really the true mentum.

Epilobe: of mentum in Carabidae, really corresponds to a partially divided ligula: a lateral appendage of a bilobed mentum.

Submental peduncle: in Coleoptera, the prolonged portion of the gula supporting the mentum.

Word Value for menta
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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