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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A family of polychætous annelids, having the parapodia modified as swimming-plates by a widening of the ends of the separated or fused parapodia, or of their cirri: typified by the genus Phyllodoce. They are known as leaf-bearing worms.

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