Pl. lemnisci. [L.; see LEMNISC.]
1. The character ÷ used by ancient textual critics in their annotations.
1849. W. Fitzgerald, Whitakers Disput. 125., Origen marked these texts with various asterisks and obeli, lemnisci and hypolemnisci.
2. One of the minute ribbon-like appendages of the generative pores of some entozoans.
1855. in Ogilvie, Suppl.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., xi. 652. The development of the Echinorhyncus now approaches completion. The lemnisci appear.