alimentary
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Let’s not overlook how long it takes for a federal lawsuit to make its way through the judicial alimentary canal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Earthworms are an example of an animal with an alimentary canal.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The alimentary canal, shown in Figure 25.5b, is a more advanced system: it consists of one tube with a mouth at one end and an anus at the other.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Animals belonging to superphylum Lophotrochozoa are protostomes, in which the blastopore, or the point of involution of the ectoderm or outer germ layer, becomes the mouth opening to the alimentary canal.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Behind the pharynx comes the truly digestive part of the alimentary canal in the form of a straight tube showing little differentiation into special regions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing alimentary
Adam West (1928-2017) Tribute List
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