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megalops

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meg⋅a⋅lops

[meg-uh-lops]
–noun Zoology.
the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.

Origin:
1850–55; < NL, orig. a genus name, equiv. to Gk megal- megal- + ps eye, face
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