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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, one of the sense-organs or marginal bodies of the Lucernarida or steganophthalmate medusans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A sac containing small, calcareous concretions (
otoliths ). They are found in many Medusæ, and other invertebrates, and are supposed to be auditory organs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A
sac containingotoliths , found inmedusae and otherinvertebrates .
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Ancient Greek
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