lipostomyn.
/lɪˈpɒstəmi/ Zoology.
Absence of a mouth or osculum.
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1880 F. P. Pascoe Zool. Classif. (ed. 2) 280 Lipostomy, absence of a mouth.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 793 The absence of an..osculum is known as lipostomy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1880- lithontriptics
- lithopaedion
- lithopaedium
- lithophagous
- lithophagus
- lithophane
- lithophanes
- lithophanic
- lithophany
- lithophil
- lithophilic
- lithophilous
- lithophone
- lithophones
- lithophonic
- lithophosphor
- lithophosphoric
- lithophotography
- lithophthisis
- lithophyll
- lithophysa
- lithophysae
- lithophysal
- lithophyte
- lithophytes