Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated in front of the mouth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated in front of or before the mouth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The two day preoral is, I am proud to say, complete.
Archive 2007-04-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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Anomalocaris making out with Opabinia really puts a new spin on the concept of the functional morphology of unusual preoral appendages.
Life's Time Capsule: The Anomalocaridid Gallery ART Evolved 2009
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Truly spectacular stuff -- and Peter Bond's Anomalocaris making out with Opabinia really puts a new spin on the concept of the functional morphology of unusual preoral appendages.
Life's Time Capsule: The Anomalocaridid Gallery ART Evolved 2009
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To the right of this adoral zone is a single line of preoral cilia.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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Solenogastres develop via a trochophore-like lecitotrophic larva with a preoral apical cap that at least partly represents an enlarged prototrochal area.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Christiane Todt 2010
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