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GREEN GLAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does green gland mean?
• GREEN GLAND (noun)
The noun GREEN GLAND has 1 sense:
1. one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae
Familiarity information: GREEN GLAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("green gland" is a kind of...):
gland; secreter; secretor; secretory organ (any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream)
Holonyms ("green gland" is a part of...):
crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)
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