Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Dicyemidae.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Like or belonging to the Dicyemata.
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- adjective zoology Like or belonging to the Dicyemata.
- noun One of the Dicyemata.
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I felt that way the other day, as I was meandering down some obscure byways of the developmental biology literature, and discovered the dicyemid mesozoa … an obscure phylum which I vaguely recall hearing about before, but had never seriously examined.
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