stomodaeum
Americannoun
plural
stomodaeanoun
Other Word Forms
- stomodaeal adjective
Etymology
Origin of stomodaeum
C19: from New Latin, from Greek stoma mouth + hodaios on the way, from hodos way
Example Sentences
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Each zooid has six tentacles; the stomodaeum is elongate, but the sulcus and sulculus are very feebly represented.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Other mesenteries, called incomplete, are not attached to the stomodaeum, and their internal margins are free from the peristome to the basal disk.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
The stomodaeum lies in the sagittal plane, the funnel and tentacles in the transverse or tentacular plane.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
They have two circlets of tentacles, a labial and a marginal, and there is only one ciliated groove in the stomodaeum, which appears to be the sulculus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
The anus is formed by a tucking in, the proctodaeum, similar to the stomodaeum.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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