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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A saccular respiratory organ found in some arachnids, such as scorpions and spiders, consisting of several parallel membranous folds arranged like the pages in a book.
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- noun zoology A
lamellate respiratory organ found inarachnids .
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- noun organ in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book
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