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Definition of: tardigrade
(tär′də·grād) adjective
1. Slow in motion or action; stepping or walking slowly.
2. Of or pertaining to a group (Tardigrada) of slow–moving microscopical arthropods, the water bears, found especially in water and damp moss.
—noun One of the Tardigrada. [<F <L tardigradus <tardus slow + gradi walk]
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