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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which divaricates, as a muscle which causes parts to separate or recede from each other; something divellent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See
Illust. ofbrachiopoda .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of the
muscles that open theshell of abrachiopod ; a cardinal muscle.
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