aboral
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English
Etymology
oral- (“away from”) + [Term?] (“the mouth”)
Pronunciation
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Adjective
aboral (comparative more aboral, superlative most aboral)
- (deprecated template usage) (zoology) Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
Related terms
Translations
situated away from the mouth
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References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aboral”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.