Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
epistoma .
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- noun zoology a mouth-covering
lobe orridge inbryozoans andphoronids - noun a plate in front of the mouth of some types of
crustacean
Etymologies
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New Latin epistoma, from Ancient Greek ἐπί (epi, "on, upon, over") + στόμα (stoma, "mouth").
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