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- noun Plural form of
oesophagus .
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Examples
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Their oesophagi have an insensitive coating, allowing them to swallow whole fish.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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_stopupagus oesophagi_, took a tool and set to work, producing with no difficulty a cold sausage of the size, figure, and general bearing of a somewhat self-important banana.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878
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