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Definition of Epistome
1. Noun. (zoology) a mouth-covering lobe or ridge in bryozoans and phoronids ¹
2. Noun. a plate in front of the mouth of some types of crustacean ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epistome
1. a structure covering the mouth of various invertebrates [n -S]
Medical Definition of Epistome
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Epistome
Literary usage of Epistome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Zoological Pocket-book: Or, Synopsis of Animal Classification. Comprising by Emil Selenka (1890)
"Sedentary, almost exclusively marine animals, with a lophophore bearing ciliated
tentacles, an epistome, house or bivalve shell, and one or several ganglia. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The prae-oral lobe (epistome, buccal disk) present in all Polyzoa except the most
minute and most elaborately colonial forms— namely, the (. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The prae-oral lobo (epistome, buccal disk) present in all ... remains in its
original furni, and also the pra-orul epistome, but tho telescopic in- ..."
4. Proceedings of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1868)
"Two of these, the branches of which are unknown, supply the epistome, and, perhaps,
the oral portion of the oesophagus. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A general nerve-plexus probably exists vit siderable parts of the skin, and there
are special nervous ( trations in the region of the epistome and along a ..."
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