Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The portion of the abdomen behind the petiole in ants and other hymenopterous insects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The stomach; the belly or abdomen: rarely used alone, but entering into many compounds and derivatives referring to the stomach, abdomen, or abdominal organs, or a part likened thereto.
- noun In certain hymenopterous insects, such as ants (Formicidæ), the abdomen exclusive of the stem, or pedicel.
- To frighten; scare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To gast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
stomach - noun the part of the
abdomen behind thepetiole inhymenopterous insects
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hmm, a gaster government might come from having a family relation, maybe a brother, swing an election to the favor of the family by using local influence to stifle the opposition.
Think Progress » Blackburn Won’t Endorse Bachmann’s ‘Gangster Government’ Rhetoric 2010
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When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight.
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Prowse approached; as acting-gaster his station in battle was on the quarter-reck beside his captain.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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At Bush's shoulder stood Prowse, the acting-gaster, senior master's mate with an acting-garrant.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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Metagaster: the secondary or permanent gut (gaster).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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_Gastric_: (From the Greek [Transliterated: gasths], _gaster_, the belly,) belonging or relating to the belly, or stomach.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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_Gastric_, (from the Greek [Greek: gastir], _gaster_, the belly,) belonging or relating to the belly, or stomach.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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Head and thorax are deep brown with gaster and legs are dense or milky white
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For example, if you could enlarge a one-centimeter-long ant so that its gaster (tail) extended over downtown Seattle and its antennae hung over Mount Rainier, a strand of ant DNA would be about two centimeters in diameter-about as wide as a US nickel.
Symbolcraft 2008
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For example, if you could enlarge a one-centimeter-long ant so that its gaster (tail) extended over downtown Seattle and its antennae hung over Mount Rainier, a strand of ant DNA would be about two centimeters in diameter-about as wide as a US nickel.
Symbolcraft 2008
missanthropist commented on the word gaster
Greek Belly.
July 9, 2008