anenterous

English

Etymology

From an- +‎ entero- +‎ -ous.

Adjective

anenterous (not comparable)

1. (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

• Portuguese: anentérico

References

“anenterous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.