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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as tapeworm.
  • noun A nemertean or nemertine worm; one of the Nemertea: so called from the extraordinary length and flattened form of some of them, as the long sea-worms of the family Lineidæ, which attain a length of many feet, as Lineus marinus.

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