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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The colonial stock of a graptolite produced by gemmation from a sicula. In the Dendroidea and the axonolipous Graptoloidea each colony consists of one rhabdosome; in the axonophorous Graptoloidea and the Retioloidea many rhabdosomes are united into a colony of a higher order.
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- noun A
graptolite colony .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ῥάβδος (rhabdos, "rod, stick") + -some
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