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English
Etymology
an- + entero- + -ous
Adjective
anenterous (not comparable)
- (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
without a stomach or an intestine
References
“anenterous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.