Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated beneath the buccal mass or organ of a mollusk: as, an infrabuccal nerve.
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There she deposits a fungus wad from her original colony carried in a pouch on her body, called the infrabuccal pocket to start a new fungus garden, the success of which is crucial for the future of the new colony.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Little AEF, Murakami T, Mueller UG, Currie CR (2003) The infrabuccal pellet piles of fungus-growing ants.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jarrod J. Scott et al. 2010
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The species displays unusual and in one or two cases possibly even unique social behaviours, including the consumption and sharing of infrabuccal pellets, the apparent absence of adult transport, a primarily or exclusively mechanical form of colony defence, and a remarkable form of abdominal trophallaxis.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Alex Wild none@example.com 2010
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The species displays unusual and in one or two cases possibly even unique social behaviours, including the consumption and sharing of infrabuccal pellets, the apparent absence of adult transport, a primarily or exclusively mechanical form of colony defence, and a remarkable form of abdominal trophallaxis.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Alex Wild none@example.com 2010
yarb commented on the word infrabuccal
The young Atta queen, before emerging for her marriage flight, retains the last filling of this "infrabuccal pocket," with its ingredient of fungus threadlets.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 81
December 11, 2008