Definition & Meaning | English word POLYGASTRIC
POLYGASTRIC
Definitions of POLYGASTRIC
- (anatomy) Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.
- (zoology) Pertaining to the Polygastrica.
- (zoology) Any polygastric creature.
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using POLYGASTRIC in a Sentence
- In 1838, at the meeting of the British Association at Newcastle, he was the sole opponent of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, who maintained the polygastric nature of certain infusoria.
- Reproduction in this species is by an alternation of generations between an asexual polygastric animal (bearing both asexual and reproductive elements) and the sexual eudoxid stage which becomes detached from the nectophore.
- Reproduction in Muggiaea kochii is by an alternation of generations between an asexual polygastric form (bearing both asexual and reproductive elements) and the sexual eudoxid form which becomes separated from the nectophore.
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