Cecal

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See cæcal, cæcally.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. of, pertaining to, or like a cecum.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Alternative spelling of caecal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or like a cecum
  • Word Usage
    "Without this knowledge, how can we say with any scientific confidence that the bacterium did not contain within its genome a pre-existing program for the expression of a flagellum waiting to be triggered by an environmental cue like cecal valves in lizards?"
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    Words with the same meaning
    abdominal  anal  appendical  blank  blind