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Webster 1913 Edition

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(fĭlˊlō̍-sō′mȧ)

Noun.

[NL. See

, and

body.]

(Zool.)

The larva of the spiny lobsters (

Palinurus

and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also

glass-crab

, and

glass-shrimp

phyllosoma ‎(plural phyllosomas or phyllosomata)