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A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.
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A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury.
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The middle of the posterior, or dorsal, margin of the great foramen of the skull.
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Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata.
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A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
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Alt. of Opisthobranchiata
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One of the Opisthobranchiata.
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An instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line, as on a map.
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A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs.
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A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.
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Having the pulmonary sac situated posteriorly; -- said of certain air-breathing Mollusca.
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A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).
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Concave behind; -- applied especially to vertebrae in which the anterior end of the centrum is convex and the posterior concave.
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Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
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The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.
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One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.
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A writing upon the back of anything, as upon the back of a leaf or sheet already written upon on one side.
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A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiae in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
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An order of eellike fishes having the scapular arch attached to the vertebrae, but not connected with the skull.
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Alt. of Opisthocoelous
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