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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as barbule
  • noun [capitalized] [NL.] A large genus of true mosses characterized by terminal, erect fruit, and a peristome of long filiform segments spirally twisted to the left.
  • noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of bivalve mollusks.

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