archencephala
Definition of archencephala
plural of archencephalon
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Archencephala
Definition of Archencephala
: humans regarded as constituting a separate subclass of Mammalia —not now used as an acceptable taxonomic concept
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Origin and Etymology of archencephala
New Latin, from archi- + encephala (plural of encephalon) — more at encephalon
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