Zool. [f. as prec. + -Y.] Absence of a mouth or osculum.
1880. F. P. Pascoe, Zool. Classif. (ed. 2), 280. Lipostomy, absence of a mouth.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Forms Anim. Life, 793. The absence of an … osculum is known as lipostomy.
Zool. [f. as prec. + -Y.] Absence of a mouth or osculum.
1880. F. P. Pascoe, Zool. Classif. (ed. 2), 280. Lipostomy, absence of a mouth.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Forms Anim. Life, 793. The absence of an … osculum is known as lipostomy.
