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 theblastopore does not entirely open up.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ancient + mouth.
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