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Webster 1913 Edition

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(lẽr-nē′ȧ)

Noun.

[NL., fr. L.

Lernaeus

Lernæan, fr.

Lerna

, Gr.

Λέρνη

, a forest and marsh near Argos, the mythological abode of the hydra.]

(Zool.)

A Linnæan genus of parasitic Entomostraca, – the same as the family

Lernæidæ

☞ The genus is restricted by modern Zoologists to a limited number of species similar to

Lernæa branchialis

found on the gills of the cod.

Lernaea f