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from The Century Dictionary.
- A term proposed in 1874 by Huxley as a provisional designation of one of two divisions of metazoic animals (the other being Gastreæ), by which the orders Cestoidea and Acanthocephala, which have no alimentary canal or proper digestive cavity, are contrasted with all other Metazoa.
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