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Webster 1913 Edition


Vibraculum

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Vi-brac′u-lum

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Noun.
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pl.
Vibracula
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[NL., dim. from L.
vibrare
to vibrate.]
(Zool.)
One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia.