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green gland

–noun Zoology.
one of the pair of excretory organs in each side of the head region of decapod crustaceans, emptying at the base of the antennae.

Origin:
1885–90
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green gland

noun
one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae 
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