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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of pulmonate mollusks or snails, typical of the family Glandinidæ, having an oblong or elongated shell with a truncated columella and a thin outer lip, and containing upward of a hundred species. G. truncata is a well-known species of the southern United States, of an ashy fawn-color tinged with pink; G. rosea is a Central American form.

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