Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A remarkable colonial deep-sea animal associated by some with Balanoglossus and Rhabdopleura in the class Adelochorda.
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Examples
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'It was wonderful, quantities of sponges, isopods, pentapods, large shrimps, corals, &c. &c.; but the _pièce de résistance_ was the capture of several bucketsful of cephalodiscus of which only seven pieces had been previously caught.
The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition Charles Turley 1904
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&c., &c. -- but the _pièce de résistance_ was the capture of several buckets full of cephalodiscus of which only seven pieces had been previously caught.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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