seminal bursa

seminal bursa
(PLATYHELMINTHES: Turbellaria)
A term used to describe the sac for receiving sperm during copulation that will be stored for a period of time; bursa seminalis; see bursa copulatrix.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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