Usually means: Mouth or opening in organisms.
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  1. peristoma: Wordnik
  2. peristoma: Wiktionary
  3. Peristoma, peristoma: Dictionary.com
  4. Peristoma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. peristoma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Peristoma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. peristoma: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Peristoma: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. Peristoma: HYPP Zoology

Definitions from Wiktionary (Peristoma)

noun:  Alternative form of peristome [(botany) One or two rings of tooth-like appendages surrounding the opening of the capsule of many mosses.]

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