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Heteronereis

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\Het`e*ro*ne*re"is\, n. [NL. See {Hetero-}, and {Nereis}.] (Zo["o]l.) A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis. Note: In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamell[ae], and their set[ae] become longer and bladelike.

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