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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In zoology, a horn, or a horn-like part, process, or organ; specifically, one of the dorsal papillæ or false gills of a pygobranchiate or notobranchiate mollusk, as a sea-slug.

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

  • noun one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the backs of nudibranchs and other related mollusks that serve as gills.

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  • noun biology a dorsal or lateral outgrowth on the body of nudibranchs

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills

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