Asteriscus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One of the otoliths found in the lagena of many nonmammalian vertebrates.

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asteriskasterisklagenolithlagenolith

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin asteriscus. Doublet of asterisk.

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