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gastrea

gastrea is the alternative form of gastraea.

gastrea is the plural of gastreum.

Meaning of gastraea

Noun

gastraea (plural gastraea)

  1. (obsolete) A hypothetical animal form assumed by Ernst Haeckel as the ancestor of all metazoic animals.

Forms of gastrea

pluralgastrea

Questions about gastrea

What is gastrea the alternative form of?
Gastrea is the alternative form of gastraea.

Words near gastrea in the dictionary

  1. gastralgy
  2. gastralia
  3. gastralial
  4. gastralium
  5. gastraphetes
  6. gastrea
  7. gastrectasia
  8. gastrectasias
  9. gastrectasis
  10. gastrectomies
  11. gastrectomize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gastrea (page history and authors); gastraea (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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