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ARCHENTERON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("archenteron" is a kind of...):
bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)
Meronyms (parts of "archenteron"):
blastopore (the opening into the archenteron)
Holonyms ("archenteron" is a part of...):
gastrula (double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm)
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