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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The alimentary canal; the intestines.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In zoology and anatomy, the intestine, alimentary canal, or digestive space which is primitively derived from the endoderm, including its annexes and appendages, but excluding any digestive space which is primitively derived from an ingrowth of ectoderm (stomodæum or proctodæum). In its original undifferentiated state the enteron is called archenteron; in any subsequent changed state, metenteron, the intestine of ordinary language.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The gut, the whole intestine (alimentary) canal

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Anat.) The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the alimentary canal (especially of an embryo or a coelenterate)

Etymologies

  1. From Neo-Latin, from Ancient Greek ἔντερον (enteron, "intestine") (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek; see en in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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