DEUTEROSTOME


Meaning of DEUTEROSTOME in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈdü-tə-rō-ˌstōm also ]

ˈdyü- noun

Etymology: New Latin Deuterostomia, group name, from deuter- + Greek stoma mouth — more at stomach

Date: 1950

: any of a major division (Deuterostomia) of the animal kingdom that includes the bilaterally symmetrical animals (as the chordates) with indeterminate cleavage and a mouth that does not arise from the blastopore

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