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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Historical progress or evolution through the acquisition and elaboration of axial or central organization.
  • noun The radiate or peripheral type of form assumed by plants and also by some of the lower forms of the animal kingdom: distinguished from dipleurogenesis or bilaterality prevailing in animals.

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