malacostomous

English

Etymology

malaco- +‎ stoma +‎ -ous

Adjective

malacostomous (comparative more malacostomous, superlative most malacostomous)

1. (zoology) Having soft jaws without teeth.

   Some fishes are malacostomous.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “malacostomous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)