Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com

Showing results for cytopharynx. Search instead for retropharynx.

cytopharynx

American

[sahy-tuh-far-ingks] / ˌsaɪ təˈfær ɪŋks /

noun

the gullet of a protozoan.

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

Etymology

Origin of cytopharynx

cyto- + pharynx

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.