Definitions
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 ofblood .
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Examples
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Instead of red pigmented blood, they prefer clear, yellowish fluid called hemolymph that flow over within the body cavity.
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Instead of red pigmented blood, they prefer clear, yellowish fluid called hemolymph that flow over within the body cavity.
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Instead of red pigmented blood, they prefer clear, yellowish fluid called hemolymph that flow over within the body cavity.
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Instead of red pigmented blood, they prefer clear, yellowish fluid called hemolymph that flow over within the body cavity.
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Instead of red pigmented blood, they prefer clear, yellowish fluid called hemolymph that flow over within the body cavity.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ssakagami 2009
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Instead of red pigmented blood, they prefer clear, yellowish fluid called hemolymph that flow over within the body cavity.
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Instead, the insects blood, called hemolymph, flows almost freely throughout the body.
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Instead of red pigmented blood, they prefer clear, yellowish fluid called hemolymph that flow over within the body cavity.
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Instead of red pigmented blood, they prefer clear, yellowish fluid called hemolymph that flow over within the body cavity.
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Instead of red pigmented blood, they prefer clear, yellowish fluid called hemolymph that flow over within the body cavity.
qms commented on the word hemolymph
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