Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the ciliated infundibular orifices of a primitive kidney. See
pronephron . - noun Same as
nephrostoma .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl. & Anat.) The funnel-shaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
funnel -shapedopening of anephridium into thebody cavity .
Etymologies
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nephro- + -stome
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Examples
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A number of tubuli, at first metamerically arranged, now appear, each opening, on the one hand, into the coelom by a ciliated mouth, the nephrostome (n.s.), and on the other into the segmental duct.
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