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  • 61Sifón (anatomía) — Un especimen de un bivalvo venerido. Se han cercenado los músculos aductores y las valvas se encuentran abiertas. Es visible la anatomía interior, incluídos el par de sifones a la derecha. Un sifón es una estructura anatómica que forma parte de… …

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  • 62ARBRE — La distinction entre arbre et herbe remonte à une antiquité éloignée. Théophraste (vers 300 av. J. C.) en avait déjà fait la base de sa classification des végétaux, non sans quelque raison à en croire d’actuels botanistes. On sait que Hutchinson… …

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  • 63incurrent — adjective chiefly Zoology (of a vessel or opening) conveying fluid inwards. The opposite of excurrent. Origin C16 (in the sense falling within (a period) ): from L. incurrent , incurrere (see incur) …

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  • 64projecting — adj protuberant, protruding, protrusive, salient, outstanding; prominent, eminent, Bot. excurrent, protrusile, excrescent; extrusive, extruding, jutting, beetling; overlying, overlapping, overhanging, pendulous, pendent, hanging; bulging,… …

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  • 65protuberant — adj gibbous, bulbous, bulging, bilging, bulging or bilging out; swelling, swollen, tumid, turgid, tumescent; distended, bellied, potbellied, bagging; goggled, Inf. pop eyed, Inf. bug eyed, Sl. googly eyed; projecting, protruding, protrusive,… …

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  • 66tumid — adj 1. swollen, enlarged, bloated, puffed up or out, puffy, Pathol. dropsical, Pathol. edematous, Pathol. edematose, Bot., Entomol. incras sate; tumescent, turgid, inflated, Obs. sufflated, distended, expanded, dilated, Pathol., Bot. hypertro… …

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  • 67excursion — [eks kʉr′zhən, eks kʉr′shən; iks kʉr′zhən, ikskʉr′shən] n. [L excursio, a running out or forth < excursus, pp. of excurrere: see EXCURRENT] 1. Obs. a military sortie; raid 2. a short trip taken with the intention of returning to the point of… …

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  • 68excursus — [eks kʉr′səs] n. pl. excursuses or excursus [L, a running forth, digression, pp. of excurrere: see EXCURRENT] 1. a detailed discussion of some point in a work, added as an appendix 2. a lengthy digression, as in a literary work …

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  • 69botryllus — ləs noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, irregular from Greek botrys : a genus (the type of the family Botryllidae) of colonial incrusting tunicates with zooids resembling rays arranged about a common excurrent atrium see golden star …

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  • 70pinacocyte — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌsīt noun ( s) Etymology: pinac + cyte : one of the flat cells covering the external surface and lining the incurrent and excurrent canals of sponges …

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