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archaeostomatous

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or having the characters of the Archæostomata.
  • In biology, having a primitive blastopore or original orifice of invagination of a blastosphere which has undergone gastrulation; retaining an archenteric aperture, as distinguished from any other which may be acquired by a deuterostomatous gastrula: it is the usual state of those gastrulæ which are formed by emboly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective biology Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely open up.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek ancient + mouth.

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