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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

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(Zool.)

A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See

Mesozoa

A taxonomic group within the kingdom Animalia – many wormlike parasites, including Rhombozoa and the Orthonectida and sometimes Placozoa and Monoblastozoa.