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- noun Plural form of
gaster .
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The gasters would probably continue supression of the democratic process by using fear to force the implementation of the agenda.
Think Progress » Blackburn Won’t Endorse Bachmann’s ‘Gangster Government’ Rhetoric 2010
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To see how well the spiders lived on particular pieces of an ant, the researchers divided 60 of the arachnids into three dining clubs that were given the ants’ front end (head, legs and thorax or mid-body), gasters or whole ants.
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The spiders given only gasters fared poorly: All 20 died within six weeks of the start of the experiment, whereas eight of the spiders dining on front parts and three on whole ants were still alive and kicking at the experiment’s end three months later.
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