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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In gasteropod mollusks of the families Pleurotomariidæ, Bellerophontidæ, and some others, a band on the periphery of the whorl produced by the progressive closing of a slit at the aperture which is due to the exsertion of the anal tube.
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