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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The circulatory fluid of arthropods and some mollusks, analogous to blood and lymph in vertebrates.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The blood and the lymph considered together.
  • noun The nutritive fluid, comparable to blood or lymph, which occupies the body-cavity of some invertebrates, as polyzoans.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A circulating fluid in the bodies of some invertebrates that is the equivalent of blood.

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  • She was to the eye a delighter,

    To hot-blooded youth an exciter,

    But cold hemolymph

    Filled veins of that nymph

    And no ardent boy could ignite her.

    October 15, 2016