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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SCALEBACK

SCALEBACK Scale "back `, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidæ, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chætopoda.