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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the vesicular or cystic tentacles of a hydrozoan; a marginal body representing a reduced and modified tentacle, whose axis is a hollow endodermal process that distinguishes it from the other kinds of marginal bodies, which are wholly of ectodermal origin, as ocellicysts and otocysts. Also
tentaculocyst . Seelithocyst , and cut underSteganophthalmata .
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