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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In entomology, similar in form to a lobster or crawfish: applied to certain aquatic, carnivorous, hexapod larvæ with elongate tapering bodies, and swimming-laminæ on the tail. The young of the coleopterous Dytiscus and the neuropterous Agrion are examples of this form.

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