mentum
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On the Balance of Power: The Pres ident believes that Communist mo mentum, which picked up after Sputnik 1, has slackened.
From Time Magazine Archive
Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Epilobe: of mentum in Carabidae, really corresponds to a partially divided ligula: a lateral appendage of a bilobed mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Anthobian: feeding on flowers; applied to certain lamellicorn Coleoptera in which the labium extends beyond the mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
The mentum carries at its extremity a pair of lobes with sharp fangs.
From The Life-Story of Insects by Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert)
