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from The Century Dictionary.
- The twenty-second class of plants in the artificial system of Linnæus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Bot.) A Linnæan class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.
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