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

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

Notice that the epithelium is in direct contact with the lumen, the space inside the alimentary canal.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The Ammocoetes possesses a functional liver with bileduct, while in the adult river lamprey the alimentary canal is degenerate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various