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- noun zoology Any member of the Pleurotomariidae.
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chained_bear commented on the word pleurotomariid
"Any of various primitive, deep-water gastropod molluscs constituting the family Pleurotomariidae, having a conical shell with a slit running up from the outer lip through which exhaled water and waste material passes." (OED)
September 12, 2008