Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mouth of a single-celled animal; the oral aperture or orifice of ingestion of unicellular organisms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The mouth of a protozoan.
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- noun microbiology A cellular
organelle found only in certain protozoa; it is specialized forphagocytosis , and usually has the form of a microtubule-supported funnel or groove.
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- noun mouth of a protozoan
Etymologies
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cyto- + -stome
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