habroderes

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habroderes (noun, plural; Greek habros, graceful; deire, neck): (Kinorhyncha) In Echinoderidae, the fourth juvenile stage to adulthood in which the midterminal spine is missing, and a series of molts results in the loss of posterior middorsal spines until the adult complement is reached.