Word.ws English Dictionary

metastome

metastome is the alternative form of metastoma.

Meaning of metastoma

Noun

metastoma (plural metastomas or metastomata)

  1. A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.
  2. A ventral single plate located in the opisthosoma of some non-arachnid chelicerates in the extinct genus Houia which is involved in feeding and manipulating food.
  3. A structure found in some mosses and liverworts that covers the mouth of the capsule from which spores are released.

Forms of metastome

pluralmetastomes

Questions about metastome

What is metastome the alternative form of?
Metastome is the alternative form of metastoma.

Words near metastome in the dictionary

  1. metastisizes
  2. metastisizing
  3. metastoma
  4. metastomas
  5. metastomata
  6. metastome
  7. metastomes
  8. metastomial
  9. metastomium
  10. metastore
  11. metastores

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: metastome (page history and authors); metastoma (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “metastome.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/metastome. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.