lucernaria

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lucernaria - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lucernaria \Lu`cer*na"ri*a\, n. [NL., fr. L. lucerna a lamp.]
     (Zool.)
     A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight
     groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches
     itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.
     [1913 Webster]