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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἀ

priv. + [GREEK] a flat cake +

φέρειν

to bear.]

(Zool.)

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.