a. and sb. Zool. [f. prec. + -AN.]

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  A.  adj. Of or belonging to the class Acalepha.

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Mod.  Its structure shows an approach to the Acalephan type.

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  B.  sb. An Acaleph, or animal of the class Acalepha.

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1843.  Owen, Anat. Invert. An., 111. The form described and figured by M. Sars in 1829 as a new genus of Acalephan.

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1854.  Knight’s Eng. Cycl., I. 24. The general opinion seems to be that touch is the only sense possessed by the Acalephans.

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