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gynæcophores

gynæcophores is the plural of gynæcophore.

Meaning of gynæcophore

Noun

gynæcophore (plural gynæcophores)

  1. Receptacle in the bodies of certain male animals (such as schistosomes) in which females may be contained.
    • Diœcious Trematodes are very rare, the most important being the formidable Bilharzia, the male of which is the larger and retains the female in a gyncæcophore, or canal, which is formed by the infolding of the margins of the concave side of the body.1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A manual of the anatomy of invertebrated animals, page 202

Questions about gynæcophores

What is gynæcophores the plural of?
Gynæcophores is the plural of gynæcophore.

Words near gynæcophores in the dictionary

  1. gynæcomasty
  2. gynæcomazia
  3. gynæcomorphous
  4. gynæconitis
  5. gynæcophore
  6. gynæcophores
  7. gynæcophoric
  8. gynæcophorous
  9. gyoji
  10. gyojis
  11. gyokuro

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