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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, the existing mouth-opening of vertebrates: so named because it is supposed to have been formed more recently than the palæostoma. (See palæostoma, 2.) It lies behind the palæostoma and is supposed to have arisen from a pair of branchial clefts.
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