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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of polychætous annelids, the ciliated free-swimming larvæ of which have a row of cilia in front of the mouth at some distance from the anterior end of the body, as the larva of Polynoë.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.

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