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What is an avicularium?

What is an avicularium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) A modified zooid, in some colonial bryozoans, in the form of a beak, that prevents other organisms from settling on the colony
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It may be desirable to separate generically the species having the hemispherical apertures, median ciliated pore, and sublateral avicularium.
It also wants the raised bands which in C. amphora pass from the sides of the mouth to the apex of the avicularium in front.
Mr. Busk, however, does not know of any gradations now existing between a zooid and an avicularium.
In this genus, in all those species in which the second avicularium occurs, each individual cell is provided with one.
Vittae linear, extremely narrow, entirely lateral, and extending the whole length of the cell from the base of the avicularium.

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