Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large mussel of the genus Modiola, especially M. modiolus, common to the shores of northern Europe and America, having a smooth blackish shell.
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In the Red Crag, for instance, we find the first known ancestors of our common edible periwinkle and common edible mussel; and in the Coraline Crag, the first known ancestors of the common horse-mussel, the common whelk, the common oyster, and the great pecten.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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