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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swimmeret \Swim"mer*et\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed,
appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal
somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in
swimming.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
swimmeret
n : one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic
crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs
in females and are usually adapted for swimming [syn: {pleopod}]
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