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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the large succulent cells of unknown function, which arise in metameric clusters from the ectoderm of the insect embryo and migrate into the body-cavity, where they remain in contact with the fat-body or tracheæ. The œnocytes are often of a wine-yellow color; hence the name.
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