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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the dilated sheathing-base of the frond of Isoëtes, an organ analogous to the petiole of a leaf. It is hollowed into a pouch which in-closes the sporangium.
- noun In Crustacea, a phyllopod.
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