Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mollusk of the class Conchifera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Conchifera.
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- noun Any
mollusc of the subphylum Conchifera
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The magnesia limestone is also remarkable as the last rock in which appears the leptaena, or producta, a conchifer of numerous species which makes a conspicuous appearance in all previous seas.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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