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Lucernaria
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Lucernaria, n. [NL., fr. L. lucerna a lamp.].
A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel. [1913 Webster]
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