Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical genus of Littorinidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See periwinkle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the family Littorinidae: periwinkles

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  • I sent them in search of the shell, and they returned bringing me some living specimens of different shells, chiefly _littorina_ and _cerithium.

    Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

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