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  • noun wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth; parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Pentastomida, phylum name, from Pentastomum, name of a former genus in the phylum; see pentastome.]

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