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epistoma

epistoma is the alternative form of epistome.

Meaning of epistome

Noun

epistome (plural epistomes)

  1. a mouth-covering lobe or ridge in bryozoans and phoronids
  2. a plate in front of the mouth of some types of crustacean

Forms of epistoma

pluralepistomas

Questions about epistoma

What is epistoma the alternative form of?
Epistoma is the alternative form of epistome.

Words near epistoma in the dictionary

  1. epistolographist
  2. epistolographists
  3. epistolography
  4. epistology
  5. epistolophobia
  6. epistoma
  7. epistomal
  8. epistomas
  9. epistomatic
  10. epistome
  11. epistomes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epistoma (page history and authors); epistome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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