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English
Etymology
From New Latin, from Latin clitella, clitellae (“packsaddle”).
Noun
clitellus (plural clitelli)
- (uncommon, obsolete) Synonym of clitellum.
Further reading
- “clitellus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “clitellus”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.