Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of acephalous or conchiferous mollusks, formerly referred to the Arcidæ or ark-shells, now made type of the family Nuculidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.
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Examples
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This fossil resembles nucula, but it is not pearly in the interior, and its abdominal margin is smooth.
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In the fragments brought home Mr. George Sowerby found a nucula, very much resembling some species of South America although not like any from Australia.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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