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from The Century Dictionary.
- A provisional primary division of animals, considered intermediate between the Protozoa and the Metazoa, and based upon the characters of the Dicyemida alone. These animals have no mesoderm. yet develop metazoic embryos bv epiboly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See
dicyemata .
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I felt that way the other day, as I was meandering down some obscure byways of the developmental biology literature, and discovered the dicyemid mesozoa … an obscure phylum which I vaguely recall hearing about before, but had never seriously examined.
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