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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Extension of processes of a loose alimentary canal into the legs, as in certain arachnidans (the Pycnogonida).
- noun The doctrine that the gastric ramifications of certain nudibranchiate gastropods (Phlebenterata) have a respiratory function.
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