Definitions for hindgut

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hindgut hind·gut

Spelling: [hahynd-guht]

IPA: /ˈhaɪndˌgʌt/

Hindgut is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in hindgut (dghintu).

Definitions for hindgut

noun

1. Zoology. the last portion of the vertebrate alimentary canal, between the cecum and the anus, involved mainly with water resorption and with the storage and elimination of food residue; the large intestine. the posterior colon of arthropods, composed of ectodermal, chitin-lined tissue.
2. Embryology, Zoology. the posterior part of the embryonic alimentary canal from which the colon and rectum develop.

Origin of hindgut

First recorded in 1875-80; hind¹ + gut

Examples for hindgut

The hindgut, separated from the preceding by a constriction, is very short and of large caliber.

Figure 4M passes through the region where both the allantois and the Wolffian ducts open into the hindgut.

The region of the hindgut, at this stage, is about one-fifth of the entire length of the embryo.

The hindgut is that portion of the intestine from the stomach to the end of the body.

Its hind-end elongates till it comes into connection with, and opens into, the cloacal section of the hindgut.

In the Cyclostomata there is no differentiation between the mid- and hindgut.