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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, the pore or orifice by which a water-tube of any water-vascular system opens to the exterior.
- noun In botany, an aperture or pore in the epidermis of certain plants, through which water is frequently expressed.
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Echinoderms, not only on account of its external form, but also by reason of the possession of a dorsal water-pore communicating with the anterior body-cavity.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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