rhabdome

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  1. In sponges, the shaft of a cladose rhabdus, bearing the cladome. The rhabdus then [i. e., when cladose] becomes known as the shaft or rhabdome, and the secondary rays are the arms or cladi, collectively the head or cladome of the spicule. W. J. Sollas, Encyc. Brit., XXII. 417.

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  1. from LGr. ῤάβδωμα, a bundle of rods, from Greek ῤάβδος, a rod. Cf. rhabdom.
 

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