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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In entomology, a genus of butterflies of the family Lycænidæ, having many ocelli on the wings (whence the name). There are many species, known as blues, as P. alexis, the common blue, and P. argiolus, the azure blue.
  • noun A genus of worms.

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