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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Haeckel's system of classification, an order of acalephs whose marginal bodies or sense-organs are tentaculicysts, and whose genitals are situated in the course of the radial canals.

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

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusæ.

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