A small or rudimentary brain-like structure; used in scientific descriptions of primitive nervous systems or minimal brain tissue.
From Latin cerebrum (brain) plus -atulus (diminutive suffix). A rare scientific term used in zoology and comparative anatomy.
Scientists use 'cerebratulus' to describe creatures like starfish and sea cucumbers that have barely-there brains—just enough nervous tissue to qualify as thinking, but barely.
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