• (n.) A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.
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<zoology> A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis. ... In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamellae, and their setae become longer and bladelike. ... Origin: N...
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Het`e·ro·ne·re'is noun [ New Latin See
Hetero- , and
Nereis .]
(Zoology) A free- swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis. » In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia ...
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