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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Huxley's name of a division of entomostracous crustaceans, consisting of the Cirripedia proper and the Rhizocephala: synonymous with the class Cirripedia in an ordinary sense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia.

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