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avicularian

  • a word derived from avicularium.
    avicularium
    noun
    a protective zooid of a bryozoan colony, having movable jaws that can be snapped shut.

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An elevated flattened band along the middle of the back, which at the top sends off a narrower lateral band to each avicularian spine.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

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