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symplectic
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symplectic, a. [Gr. plaiting together, fr. to plait together.].
Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium. [1913 Webster]
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