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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or being within the intestine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging to the intestines; intestinal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.
  • adjective (Med.) typhoid fever.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, relating to, within, or by way of the intestines
  • adjective staying intact in the stomach, then dissolving in the intestine

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to the enteron
  • adjective of or relating to or inside the intestines

Etymologies

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Greek έντερα ("intestines, innards") + -ic

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