through-gut

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English

Etymology

From through- +‎ gut.

Noun

through-gut (plural through-guts)

  1. (biology, medicine) Alimentary canal, digestive tract.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 84:
      The emergence of new, more efficient means of predation and foraging - 'terrors with teeth' with a through-gut (an early, small version of the 'tube' which Steve Jones reminds us we all are) connected to the anus, which could process what they ate with more efficiency than any previous animal.