brown body

brown body
noun
1. : a body formed in many bryozoans by the degenerating internal organs and believed to have an excretory function
2. : one of numerous flattened or ovoid dark masses in the posterior segments of earthworms resulting from the breakdown of amoebocytes and their included debris

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brown body,
an intestinal structure in bryozoans believed to function as an excretory organ.

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