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spirurian

Today it means: Belonging to the nematode subclass Spiruria. Full definition →

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From translingual Spiruria + -an. By surface analysis, spir- + -ure (“tail”) + -ian.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.