Usually means: Sensory organ detecting gravity, balance.
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  2. statocyst: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. statocyst: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Statocyst: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
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  8. statocyst: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (statocyst)

noun:  (zoology) An organ of balance found in some aquatic invertebrates, consisting of a sac-like structure containing a statolith and numerous innervated setae. Ancestral to vertebrate otolith (their organ of hearing and balance).

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