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n. [Gr. lophos, crest; kytos, container](PORIFERA)Mobile collagen-secreting cells that trail attached collagen fibrils.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
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