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nau·pli·us 
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Audio Help [-plee-ahy] Pronunciation Key. | (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg. |
[Origin: 1830–40; < L: a kind of shellfish]
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nau·pli·al, nau·pli·form, nau·pli·oid, adjective
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Nauplius
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n. pl. nau·pli·i (-plē-ī') The free-swimming first stage of the larva of certain crustaceans, having an unsegmented body with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye. [Latin, a kind of shellfish, from Greek nauplios.] nau'pli·al (-əl) adj. |
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Nauplius
Met`a*nau"pli*us\, n. [NL. See Meta-, and Nauplius.] (Zo["o]l.) A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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