endognath

English

Etymology

From endo- +‎ -gnath (jaw).[1]

Noun

endognath (plural endognaths)

  1. (zoology) The inner or principal series of oral appendages of crustaceans.
    • 1908, Walter Holbrook Gaskell, The Origin of Vertebrates:
      the cheliceræ, and the four pairs of endognaths dwindled away and became insignificant, leaving as trace of their former presence the descending root of the Vth nerve

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  1. ^ -gnath, comb. form”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.