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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of marsupial mammals, of the family Didelphyidæ, containing the yapok or water-opossum of South America, C. variegatus or C. yapok. Illiger, 1811.
  • noun A genus of pediculate fishes: same as Antennarius. Cuvier, 1817. Also Cheironectes.

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