Definitions for endostyle

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endostyle en·do·style

Spelling: [en-duh-stahyl]

IPA: /ˈɛn dəˌstaɪl/

Endostyle is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 427 anagrams from letters in endostyle (deelnosty).

Definitions for endostyle

noun

1. a ciliated groove or pair of grooves in the pharynx of various lower chordates, as tunicates, cephalochordates, and larval cyclostomes, serving to accumulate food particles and pass them along the digestive tract.

Origin of endostyle

1850-55; endo- + -style¹; so called because the groove is said to resemble a hollow rod from certain viewing angles

Examples for endostyle

On the ventral wall of the branchial sack there is formed a narrow fold with thickened walls, which forms the endostyle.

The thyroid is, in fact, in this stage in a condition corresponding exactly with the endostyle of Amphioxus.

Between the nervous system and the endostyle an involution appears, which gives rise to the mouth.

According to Kowalevsky the heart is formed during larval life as an elongated closed sack on the right side of the endostyle.