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Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively. →
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A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely. →
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An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken. →
The Archimedean screw. →