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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An excretory cell, with fibrillar or vacuolated cytoplasm, which contains masses of waste products. Such cells occur in the track of the blood-currents in the Crustacea.
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- noun biology a specialized
cell , especially inarthropods , whose function involves the accumulation or formation ofwaste orexcretory products
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nephro- + -cyte
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