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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the
miters ,murices ,olives ,purpuras ,volutes , andwhelks . SeeIllust. in the Appendix.
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