brain

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brain (noun; Anglo-Saxon braegen, brain): 1. The nervous center of invertebrates.

2. (Arthropoda) The cephalic nerve mass; the encephalon, the supraesophageal ganglion; the archicerebrum.

3. (NEMATA) The nerve ring and associated ganglia.