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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The central cavity of the gastrula, which ultimately becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The enteron (which see) in its original or primitive undifferentiated state: opposed to metenteron.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy A primitive alimentary cavity

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Biol.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under invagination.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity

Etymologies

  1. arch- from Latin archi- from Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (archi-) + enteron from Ancient Greek ἔντερον (enteron, "gut"). (Wiktionary)

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