Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Nrticidæ, containing some 200 species, and subdivided into numerous subgenera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family
Naticidæ .) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.
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Oatalogum auctorum, qui de re numis* cessarius est ad rem numismaticam usus» natica scripsere, pridem edidere Pbilip - aut quae propter varias causas ignorare pu8 Labbe, Budolphus Capellus, Bur - vix licet In iis, quae jam recensuit Ban - chardus Struvius.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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