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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 in arachnids.

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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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