- An order of curious parasitic worms found on
crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers
and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.
N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent,
and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or
linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done;
but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard
or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same
sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but
related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to
Pronunciation, // 243-246.
Definition
[ n. pl.]