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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of toads, of the family Cystignathidæ, having the skull most extensively ossified, the ossification involving the derm and overarching the temporal fossæ, whence the name. C. gayi, the type-form, is a large, green, web-footed Chilian species.
- noun In entomology, a genus of lampyrid beetles, founded by Gray in 1832, having the head entirely covered by the prothorax, and from 3 to 10 bipectinate antennal joints.
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