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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, a glandular organ of many invertebrates, the so-called liver, supposed to have both a hepatic and a pancreatic function.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.
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