Usually means: Passageway for air and food.
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  1. pharynxes: Merriam-Webster
  2. pharynxes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pharynxes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. pharynxes: Wiktionary
  5. pharynxes: Dictionary.com
  6. Pharynxes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. pharynxes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pharynxes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pharynxes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pharynxes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See pharynx as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pharynx)

noun:  (anatomy) The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus.
noun:  (zootomy) The part of the alimentary canal immediately behind the mouth in invertebrates that may be thickened and muscular, eversible and toothed, or adapted as a suctorial organ.
▸ Also see pharynx


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