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Word: Pediculate
Speech Type: Adjective
mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Huxley (1825–1895), biologist and science educationist. From classical Latin pediculus pedicle + -ate
= pediculated.
Of or relating to the order Pediculati of fishes (now usually called Lophiiformes), containing the anglerfishes, members of which are characterized by pectoral fins having an armlike base of elongated radials.
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