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Lucernaria

Lucernaria

(Science: zoology) a genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.

Origin: NL, fr. L. Lucerna a lamp.


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