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meconidium
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meconidium, n. [NL., dim. of Gr. a poppy. So called in allusion to the shape of the seed capsules of the poppy.].
A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyræa . It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel. [1913 Webster]
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