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Definition: Heteronereis
Heteronereis
\Het`e*ro*ne*re"is\, n. [NL. See
Hetero-, and
Nereis.] (Zo["o]l.)
A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of
Nereis.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In this state the head and its appendages are changed
in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of
the parapodia are highly modified by the development of
finlike lobes, and branchial lamell[ae], and their
set[ae] become longer and bladelike.
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