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Webster 1913 Edition

Scyphophori

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Scy-phoph′o-ri

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr.

σκύφοσ

a cup +

φέρειν

to bear.]

(Zool.)

An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.