FromNew Latinclitellum, fromLatinclītella(singular noun),clītellae(“packsaddle”,plurale tantum).^[1][2]

• Rhymes:-ɛləm

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clitellum (pluralclitella)

1. (biology) Aglandularswelling in theepidermis of someannelidworms; it secretes a viscous fluid in which theeggs are deposited.

• saddle
• clitellus(uncommon, obsolete)

• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “clitellum”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.

• multicell

Coined fromclītella(“packsaddle”) +‎-um.

clītellum n (genitiveclītellī);second declension

1. (New Latin)clitellum
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Second-declension noun (neuter).

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