"cryptostomy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1991, Biology Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, page 279",
          "text": "They are comparatively large, without outgrowths, of a rounded shape, with a flattened ventral surface and cryptostomy or plagiostomy with a lip.",
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          "text": "The slit-like pseudostome is hidden by the dorsal lip and an extension of the ventral shell wall (cryptostomy).",
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          "text": "Two other morphological features, plagiostomy and cryptostomy, are considered to be adaptations to life in soil; both involve a reduction in the size of the pseudostome in proportion to the test and the formation of a vestibule (Fig. 11) and both tend, therefore, to protect the cell against dessicaation (Bonnet, 1961a, 1964).",
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        "(biology) An adaptation in which the mouth is reduced to a slit and its location is concealed."
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