Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brachiopod of the family Terebratutidæ or some related family; by extension, any brachiopod. See
lampas .
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Examples
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I think it probable that critical and unprejudiced examination will show that more than one species of much higher animals have had a similar longevity; but the only example, which I can at present give confidently is the snake's-head lamp-shell (Terebratulina caput serpentis), which lives in our English seas and abounded (as Terebratulina striata of authors) in the chalk.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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The Brachiopods were another group of molluscs, or rather molluscoids for they were not true molluscs, less abundant even then than in previous ages and now surviving only in a few rare and little known types such as the lamp-shell (_Terebratulina_).
Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections William Diller Matthew 1900
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I think it probable that critical and unprejudiced examination will show that more than one species of much higher animals have had a similar longevity; but the only example which I can at present give confidently is the snake's-head lamp-shell
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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I can at present give confidently is the snake's-head lamp-shell
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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I think it probable that critical and unprejudiced examination will show that more than one species of much higher animals have had a similar longevity; but the only example, which I can at present give confidently is the snake's-head lamp-shell (Terebratulina caput serpentis), which lives in our English seas and abounded (as Terebratulina striata of authors) in the chalk.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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I think it probable that critical and unprejudiced examination will show that more than one species of much higher animals have had a similar longevity; but the only example, which I can at present give confidently is the snake’s-head lamp-shell (Terebratulina caput serpentis), which lives in our English seas and abounded (as
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