Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gastropod of the family Aporrhaidæ.
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- noun zoology Any member of the Aporrhaidae.
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In calm weather, then, they go free afield, but when the wind blows the carcinia take shelter against the rocks: the neritae themselves cling fast like limpets; and the same is the case with the haemorrhoid or aporrhaid and all others of the like kind.
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