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Definition of "gastrovascular" []

  • Having both a digestive and a circulatory function. Used especially to describe the body cavity of a coelenterate. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "gastrovascular" in a sentence
  • "One of these digestive systems that are not so complicated is the gastrovascular cavities."
  • "In animals that lack a hard skeleton, a fluid-filled gastrovascular cavity or coelom  Offers support and resistance to contraction of muscles for mobility  Example: Earthworms - When muscles contract, segments become thinner and elongate, like a squeezed balloon  Exoskeleton"
  • "The feeding polyps feature tentacles and share the nutrients they imbibe with the rest of the colony after digestion in the gastrovascular cavity."
Words like "gastrovascular"
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