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through-gut

through-gut noun: the alimentary canal, the digestive tract.

Noun

through-gut (plural through-guts)

  1. The alimentary canal, the digestive tract.
    • The emergence of new, more efficient means of predation and foraging - 'terrors with teeth' with a through-gut (an early, small version of the 'tube' which Steve Jones reminds us we all are) connected to the anus, which could process what they ate with more efficiency than any previous animal.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 84

Forms of through-gut

pluralthrough-guts

Origin of through-gut

From through- + gut.

Questions about through-gut

What does through-gut mean?
Through-gut means the alimentary canal, the digestive tract.
What part of speech is through-gut?
Through-gut is a noun.
What is the plural of through-gut?
The plural of through-gut is through-guts.

Words near through-gut in the dictionary

  1. through-draughts
  2. through-gird
  3. through-girding
  4. through-girds
  5. through-girt
  6. through-gut
  7. through-guts
  8. through-hike
  9. through-hiked
  10. through-hiker
  11. through-hikers

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