单词 | cytostome |
释义 | > as lemmascytostome cytostome n. Brit. /ˈsʌɪtəstəʊm/ , U.S. /ˈsaɪdəˌstoʊm/ (also †cytostoma) [after German Cytostoma (Haeckel 1873, in Jenaische Zeitschr. f. Med. u. Naturwissenschaft 7 547)] an opening or structure through which particulate food is ingested in certain protozoans.ΚΠ 1875 Monthly Microsc. Jrnl. Oct. 185 Since, therefore, they do not admit of being homologically identified with the orifices of the same name in the higher animals, Haeckel has proposed for them the terms ‘Cytostoma’ and ‘Cytopyge’. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) iv. 46 The external opening of this passageway, into which the oral groove leads, is called the mouth or cytostome. 1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) ii. 119/2 This small mastigote has a trailing undulipodium that propels food into its mouth (cytostome). < as lemmas |
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