endognath
English
Etymology
From endo- + -gnath (“jaw”).[1]
Noun
endognath (plural endognaths)
- (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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References
- “endognath”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “endognath, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “-gnath, comb. form”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.