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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In sea-anemones and polyps, one of the radially arranged cavities given off from the stomach or mesenteron; an intermesenteric chamber.
  • noun The enteron, in any secondary, differentiated, or specialized state occurring from modification of its primary condition of archenteron.

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