An order of curious parasitic worms found on
   crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers
   and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.
   N () the fourteenth letter of English alphabet, is a vocal consonent,
   and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or
   linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done;
   but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard
   or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same
   sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but
   related sound, and is called the gutturo-nasal consonent. See Guide to
   Pronunciation, // 243-246.