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haustra

haustra is the plural of haustrum.

Meaning of haustrum

Noun

haustrum (plural haustra or haustrae)

  1. Any of the small pouches of the colon caused by sacculation, giving the colon its segmented appearance.

Questions about haustra

What is haustra the plural of?
Haustra is the plural of haustrum.

Words near haustra in the dictionary

  1. haustorial
  2. haustorially
  3. haustoriid
  4. haustoriids
  5. haustorium
  6. haustra
  7. haustrae
  8. haustral
  9. haustral contraction
  10. haustral contractions
  11. haustration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haustra (page history and authors); haustrum (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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