Uncinus

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uncinus \Un*ci"nus\, n.; pl. {Uncini}. [L., a hook.] (Zool.)
     One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large
     numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the
     Uncinata.
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