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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Brachiopoda, a convex plate which appears in mature stages of some of the species as an outside envelop of the cardinal process of the dorsal valve. It is analogous to the deltidium of the ventral valve, but is not homologous therewith either in origin or function.
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