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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the Pelecypoda, a group in which the hinge-structure consists of an elaborate interlocking arrangement of two concentric teeth and sockets which cannot be separated without fracture, as in Spondylus. In Pecten and other less specialized forms the apparatus is not so intricate.

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