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melicertan Zool.|mɛlɪˈsɜːtən|
Also -ian.
[f. Melicerta (from L. Melicerta, Gr. Μελικέρτης, name of a sea-god) + -an.]
A rotifer of the genus Melicerta of family Melicertidæ.
1856Carpenter Microsc. §281. 498 The first group..includes two families, the Floscularians and the Melicertians. 1884C. T. Hudson in Q. Jrnl. Microscop. Sci. XXIV. 343 In all other Melicertans the row of smaller cilia encloses the row of larger ones. |