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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Hydrozoa, the axis of a series of nectocalyxes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora.
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- noun zoology That portion of the
axis which bears thenectocalyces insiphonophores .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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