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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That stage in the development of an embryo during which the structures characteristic of the class make their appearance. Examples are the protaspis stage of trilobites, protegulum of brachiopods, protoconch of cephalopods, and prodissoconch of pelecypods. See
recapitulation , 3.
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