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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The spoonworms proper, a restricted family of sipunculoid or gephyrean worms, typified by the genus Sipunculus, having a retractile tentaeuliferous proboscis.
  • noun The Sipunculoidea as a class of animals under a phylum Gephyrea.

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