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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pl. rhipiduræ (-rē). The posterior pair of pleopods of a crustacean, together with the telson, when these are developed, as in macrurous crustaceans.
- noun For example, the flat shelly plates or swimmerets of the end of a lobster's tail form a rhipidura. See
c in cut underpereiopod . - noun [capitalized] An extensive genus of Muscicapidæ, ranging through the Oriental and Australian regions; the fan-tailed flycatchers. R. flabellifera is an example.
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