Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology:
- noun A groove in the side of the rostrum in which the scape or basal joint of the antenna is received, in the weevils or curculios.
- noun A groove on the outer side of the mandible, more fully called
mandibular scrobe .
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a scrobe vel sulco redeuntibus altera cena amplior et grandes fumabant pultibus ollae (166).
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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