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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A suborder of parasitic crustaceans, of the order Simphonostoma; the carp-lice. It consists of the single family Argulidæ, having large compound eyes, a long protrusile spine in front of the suctorial tube of the mouth, and four pairs of elongated biramous swimming-feet. But the Argulidæ are by most authors referred to the Branchiopoda.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).
WordNet 3.0
- n. copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes
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