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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In entomology, having no mandibles, or having those organs so modified that they cannot be used for grasping or biting, as in the Lepidoptera and most Diptera.
  • Having no lower jaw, as the lampreys and hags; cyclostomous, as a vertebrate.

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