Usually means: Temporary protective seal in snails.
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  9. epiphragm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (epiphragm)

noun:  (zoology) A dry layer of mucus used by a snail or mollusk to seal itself inside its shell during hibernation.
noun:  (botany) The dilated apex of the columella in urn mosses.

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