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anus
1[ ey-nuhs ]
noun
- the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted.
-anus
2- a suffix occurring in scientific words of Latin origin:
Platanus.
anus
/ ˈeɪnəs /
noun
- the excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal anal
anus
/ ā′nəs /
- The opening at the lower end of the digestive tract through which solid waste is excreted.
Word History and Origins
Origin of anus1
Word History and Origins
Origin of anus1
Example Sentences
Still, “if you haven’t got an anus,” Donoghue jokes, “you’re not going to be very comfortable anywhere.”
Despite its absent anus, Saccorhytus coronarius had no shortage of holes on its wrinkly potato-shaped body, including a ring of small openings around its gaping mouth.
For a long time, there was a myth that face mites didn’t have an anus to expel waste.
That guidance was out of step with medical reality, since internal lesions—particularly in the anus or rectum—can also occur as a result of sexual transmission.
The babies born to people who had more glyphosate in their urine also had greater distance between their anus and genitalia, which is associated with higher levels of male sex hormones.
Anus posterior, median; anterior tentacles, atrophied; foot broad.
Anus nearly always terminal, rarely dorsal, at a little distance from end of body.
Anus orange-coloured, and furnished with a bristle for oviposition.
Anus usually in the upper or oral half of the theca, and never aboral.
Anus in posterior interradius, on oral surface, closed by valvular pyramid.
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