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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A remarkable genus of hexamerous Anthozoa, having two circlets of numerous tentacles, one immediately around the mouth, the other on the margin of the disk, and one pair of the diametral folds of the mouth much longer than the other and produced as far as the pedal pore usually found on the apex of the elongated conical foot.

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