Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In zoology, a horn, or a horn-like part, process, or organ; specifically, one of the dorsal papillæ or false gills of a pygobranchiate or notobranchiate mollusk, as a sea-slug.
Wiktionary
- n. biology a dorsal or lateral outgrowth on the body of nudibranchs
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the backs of nudibranchs and other related mollusks that serve as gills.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills
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“(The other part of the name mojoceratops follows the convention of other related species, with "ceras" being”
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“The full name of the newly identified species - Mojoceratops perifania - includes the Greek term perifania (meaning "pride"), ceras (Greek for "horn") and ops (Greek for "face").”
“Prima favis pcHiunt fundamina, deinde tenacis Sufpendunt ceras; aliae, fpem gentis, adultos Educunt fetus; aliae pariffima mella Stipant, et liquido diflendunt nedare cellas.”
“Progeniem nidosque fovent; hinc arte recentii Excudunt ceras, et mella tenacia fingunt.”
“o quotiens, alii uellem cum scribere, nomen rettulit in ceras inscia dextra tuum! incipit liber quartus _B2_ incipit quartus sexto pompeio _M_ liber”
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