English

gastropore

From gastro- + pore.

Ancient Greek γαστήρ ‘stomach’

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘to pass, go forth’

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Ancient Greek πόρος ‘passage’

Latin porus ‘pore, passage in the body’

Old French pore

Middle English pore

English pore

Today it means

noun A pore, in a hydrozoan coral, containing a gastrozooid

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Etymograph / gastropore