Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or appearing to have many stomachs. as an animalcule; specifically, of or pertaining to the Polygastrica.
- noun A polygastric animalcule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Polygastrica.
- adjective (Anat.) Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.
- adjective (Zoöl.), obsolete Pertaining to the Polygastrica.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Having several
bellies ; -- applied tomuscles which are made up of several bellies separated by shorttendons . - adjective zoology Pertaining to the Polygastrica.
- noun zoology Any polygastric creature.
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Examples
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In the oceanic depths, far exceeding the height of our loftiest mountain chains, every stratum of water is animated with polygastric sea-worms, Cyclidiae and Ophrydinae.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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African shore, contains the remains of eighteen species of silicious-shelled polygastric animalcules.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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No mere organic cell, destined for ulterior changes in a living organization, has a mouth armed with teeth, or provided with long tentacula; I will not lay stress on the alimentary canal and appended stomachs, which many still regard as 'sub judice'; but the endowment of distinct organs of generation, for propagating their kind by fertile ova, raises the polygastric infusoria much above the mere organic cell. "-- pp. 25, 26.
A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Francis Bowen 1850
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