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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of proboscis-bearing gastropods with the radular teeth in three longitudinal rows, of which the central row is fixed, while the lateral rows are changeable. It includes such families as the Muricidæ and Buccinidæ, or the whelks and the like.

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