Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Surrounding the mouth; situated about the mouth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective around or encircling the mouth.
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Examples
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He derived the central nervous system of the Chordata from the circumoral ring of the common ancestor by means of the hypothesis that both the pre-blastoporal and the post-blastoporal parts of it disappeared. [
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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