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from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, provided with a case or covering: applied to certain larvæ both aquatic and terrestrial, that conceal themselves within a case which they form, and from which they protrude the anterior portion of the body when moving about. See cuts under
Acrobasis and Coscinoptera.
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