Word.ws English Dictionary

haustellate

haustellate adjective: having a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.

Adjective

haustellate (not comparable)

  1. Having a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.

Noun

haustellate (plural haustellates)

  1. A haustellate insect.
    • 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 .1853, John George Wood, Bees, page 19

Forms of haustellate

pluralhaustellates

Origin of haustellate

See Haustellata.

Questions about haustellate

What does haustellate mean?
Haustellate means having a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.
What part of speech is haustellate?
Haustellate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near haustellate in the dictionary

  1. Haussmannize
  2. Haussmannized
  3. Haussmannizes
  4. Haussmannizing
  5. haustella
  6. haustellate
  7. haustellated
  8. haustellates
  9. haustellum
  10. haustement
  11. haustoria

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: haustellate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “haustellate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/haustellate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.