ARCHENTERON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archenteron mean? 

• ARCHENTERON (noun)
  The noun ARCHENTERON has 1 sense:

1. central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity

  Familiarity information: ARCHENTERON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHENTERON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("archenteron" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Meronyms (parts of "archenteron"):

blastopore (the opening into the archenteron)

Holonyms ("archenteron" is a part of...):

gastrula (double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm)