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polygastric, a. (n.)|pɒlɪˈgæstrɪk|
[ad. F. polygastrique: see poly- and gastric.]
Having many stomachs or digestive cavities; belonging to certain infusorians formerly called Polygastrica, in the belief that their food-vacuoles were separate digestive organs. b. as n. A ‘polygastric’ animalcule. Also polyˈgastrian a. and n.
1845Whewell Indic. Creator 39 The lowest kind of animal developement, which has been termed polygastric monads. 1846Dana Zooph. vii. §106 (1848) 107 The Lernæoid division appears to reach the Polygastrics in the Acephalocist. 1864Webster, Polygastrian, Polygastric... An animal having, or supposed to have, many stomachs. 1865Intell. Observ. No. 47. 389 Ehrenberg's polygastric theory. |