Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An organ of many pulmonate or terrestrial gastropods, as snails: technically called
spiculum amoris . See the quotation.
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Examples
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How delightful is this love-dart, which, wounding us with the incurable wound of heavenly love, makes us for ever pining and sick, with so strong a beating of the heart, that at length we must yield to death.
Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884
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Blanchard KC (2006) The snail's love-dart delivers mucus to increase paternity.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joris M. Koene et al. 2010
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