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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of rhachiglossate gastropods, typified by the genus Columbella, having an oval obconic or turreted shell with rather short spire, a toothed inner and internally thickened crenulated outer lip, and a narrow aperture with a short anterior canal.

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