crystalline stylet
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crystalline style — noun or crystalline stylet : a long cylindrical or tapered translucent gelatinous rod in the digestive tract of many bivalve mollusks … Useful english dictionary
gastropod — /gas treuh pod /, n. 1. any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc. adj. 2. Also, gastropodous /ga strop euh deuhs/. belonging or pertaining to the gastropods. [1820 30; < NL Gast(e)ropoda a class of mollusks.… … Universalium
style — n.; pl. styli [Gr. stylos, pillar] 1. (ARTHROPODA: Chelicerata) The embolus of spiders. 2. (ARTHROPODA: Crustacea) see telson. 3. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) a. Any slender, tubular or spinelike appendage at the end of the abdomen. b. In some Diptera,… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
