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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of monomyarian acephalous bivalves or lamellibranch mollusks, typified by the genus Lima, having the mantle-margins fringed with tentacular filaments, the foot finger-like, the lips tentaculate, and the shell obliquely oval, with the umbones eared, the anterior side gaping, and the posterior rounded.

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