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Webster 1913 Edition


Scyllaea

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Scyl-lae′a

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Noun.
[NL. See
Scylla
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(Zool.)
A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.
☞ In color and form these mollusks closely imitate the fronds of sargassum and other floating seaweeds among which they live.