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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Latreille's system of classification, an order of Arachnida having no apparent respiratory apparatus, by which the Pycnogonidæ alone were distinguished from other arachnidans: synonymous with Podosomata of Leach's system.
- noun In De Blainville's system of classification, an order of his Paracephalophora, containing the pteropods, which are divided into the Thecosomata and Gymnosomata. Also
Aporobranchiata .
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