blade

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blade (noun; Anglo-Saxon blaed, leaf): 1. Any elongate, flattened, usually stiff structure shaped like a leaf, sword or knife.

2. (Arthropoda: Insecta) The lacinia or galea.

3. (NEMATA) see lamina.

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