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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An order or suborder of pectinibranchiate gastropods.

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

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of cone, n., 4, pleurotoma, and terebra.

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