1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Heteronereis \Het`e*ro*ne*re"is\, n. [NL. See {Hetero-}, and {Nereis}.] (Zool.) A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
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