GREEN GLAND

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("green gland" is a kind of...):

gland; secreter; secretor; secretory organ (any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream)

Holonyms ("green gland" is a part of...):

crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)

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