Menta [noun]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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