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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hypothetical embryonic nauplius stage of the hypothetical crustacean prototype, as yet unobserved but, by virtue of Beecher's researches on trilobite larvæ, supposed to have been similar to the protaspis stage of primitive trilobites.
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