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through-guts

through-guts is the plural of through-gut.

Meaning of through-gut

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

Questions about through-guts

What is through-guts the plural of?
Through-guts is the plural of through-gut.

Words near through-guts in the dictionary

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

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