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Webster 1913 Edition


Lucernaria


Luˊcer-na′ri-a

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Noun.
[NL., fr. L.
lucerna
a lamp.]
(Zool.)
A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.