Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, a lumbrical muscle: so called from its resemblance in size and shape to a worm.

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  • Common shoreline species include green algae Cladophora spp., red algae Ceramium tenuicorne and Furcellaria lumbricalis and brown algae Pilayella litoralis as well as Bladder wrack Fuscus vesiculosus.

    Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden 2008

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