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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cœnure: originally mistaken for and named as a genus of worms by Rudolphi.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (
Tænia cœnurus ) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.
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