Etymology: < Greek γνάθος + στέγειν to cover + -itesuffix1.
Zoology.
(See quot. 1877.)
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1877 T. H. HuxleyMan. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 345 A broad plate, which, with its fellow, covers over the other organs, and hence receives the name of the gnathostegite.
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