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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A name proposed by Owen, in 1857, for the highest one of four subclasses into which he divided the class Mammalia according to the character of the brain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) The division that includes man alone.

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  • noun Plural form of archencephalon.

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