Pl. lemnisci. [L.; see LEMNISC.]

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  1.  The character ÷ used by ancient textual critics in their annotations.

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1849.  W. Fitzgerald, Whitaker’s Disput. 125., Origen marked these texts with various asterisks and obeli, lemnisci and hypolemnisci.

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  2.  One of the minute ribbon-like appendages of the generative pores of some entozoans.

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1855.  in Ogilvie, Suppl.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., xi. 652. The development of the Echinorhyncus now approaches completion. The lemnisci appear.

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