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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Anat.) The most recently evolved part of the brain of higher animals. It includes the cerebral cortex and related structures.
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- noun the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts
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