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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lernæa

Ler·næ′a (lẽr·nē′ȧ), n. [NL., fr. L. Lernaeus Lernæan, fr. Lerna, Gr. Λέρνη, a forest and marsh near Argos, the mythological abode of the hydra.] (Zoöl.) A Linnæan genus of parasitic Entomostraca, — the same as the family Lernæidæ.

☞ The genus is restricted by modern zoölogists to a limited number of species similar to Lernæa branchialis found on the gills of the cod.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.