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‖ metagaster Biol.|mɛtəˈgæstə(r)|
[mod.L.: see meta- and gaster.]
Haeckel's phylogenetic term for the later, more highly differentiated stomach of the Craniota, as distinguished from the primitive intestine or protogaster. Hence metaˈgastral a. (in recent Dicts.).
1879tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man II 321 The differentiated or secondary intestine (‘after intestine or metagaster’). |