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Definition of Hypostomes
1. hypostome [n] - See also: hypostome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypostomes
Literary usage of Hypostomes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1902)
"of the hypostomes of the small polyps formed from the heads of the hydras cut
off in the previous experiment. The measurements we made at the same time as ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"... by a multiplication of the mouths and hypostomes of a remote ancestor similar
... the tentacles and arms as modifications of these primitive hypostomes. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"The severed " heads" remodeled themselves into small polyps, and, although the
hypostomes suffered reduction in diameter, in no case was a reduction in the ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1901)
"... but, if we may presume on our scanty knowledge of these structures to make a
suggestion, they appear to be similar to the macula; on the hypostomes ..."
5. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"Below the level of Fishes, there are the jawless lampreys and hags, and the
extinct, likewise jawless, hypostomes. Below these come the lancelets; ..."
6. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1901)
"That this work is founded on abundant material may be assumed when it is stated
the hypostomes of thirty-six species of trilobites have been sectioned for ..."
7. The Story of the Earth and Man by John William Dawson (1873)
"... the digging of their snouts, and the hoe-work of their hard upper lips, or
hypostomes, they made nearly all those strange marks in the Primordial mud ..."
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