- clitellum
- clitellum "raised band around an earthworm," 1839, Modern Latin, from L. clitellae "a pack-saddle," dim. of *clitra "litter," from PIE *klei-tro-, from root *klei- (see LEAN (Cf. lean) (v.)).
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clitellum
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clitellum — /kluy tel euhm/, n., pl. clitella / tel euh/. a ring or saddle shaped region of glandular tissue in the body wall of certain annelids, as earthworms and some leeches, that after copulation secretes a cocoon in which the eggs and sperm are… … Universalium
clitellum — noun A glandular swelling in the epidermis of some annelid worms; it secretes a viscous fluid in which the eggs are deposited … Wiktionary
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