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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Crustacea, the long many-jointed filament which terminates the antenna or feeler of many species, as lobsters and crawfish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The segment next to the flagellum of the antennæ of Crustacea.
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- noun zoology The
segment next to theflagellum of theantennae ofcrustaceans .
Etymologies
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pro- + Ancient Greek κέρας (keras, "horn").
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