Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
proglottic .
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“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.”
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(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.
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