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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of sense-organ, or marginal body, as in Scyphomedusæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusæ belonging to the Discophora.

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  • noun zoology One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae belonging to the Discophora.

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New Latin.

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