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Aplacophoran

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  • noun. one of the aplacophora; a deep-water wormlike mollusk lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
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  • noun. deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle
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