Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as proglottic.

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Examples

  • “My memory is proglottidean, like the tapeworm, but unlike the tapeworm it has no head, it wanders in a maze, and any point may be the beginning or the end of its journey.”

    More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books 2005

  • (I’m sort of embarrassed for not knowing this literary term). proglottidean From proglottid, each segment in the strobila of a tapeworm containing a complete, sexually mature reproductive system.

    More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books 2005

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