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(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
Related forms:
nau⋅pli⋅al,
nau⋅pli⋅form,
nau⋅pli⋅oid,
adjective
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