anenterous

English

Etymology

From an- +‎ entero- +‎ -ous.

Adjective

anenterous (not comparable)

  1. (zoology) Without a stomach or an intestine.
    • 1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:
      These anenterous Echinoderms (Ophiuridæ, Luidea, Asterias proper, Astropecten,) belong to the order Asteroideat

Translations

References

“anenterous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.