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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Lamarck's classification (1801–12), one of three orders of Annelida, distinguished from
Apoda and Antennata, and containing the sedentary or tubicolous worms: opposed to Errantia. - noun 2. The sedentary spiders: same as
Sedentariæ . - noun 3. A suborder of peritrichous ciliate infusorians, containing those which are sedentary, as the Vorticellidæ: distinguished from
Natantia .
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