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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In conchology, same as Orthoceras.
  • noun In entomology, a genus of the coleopterous family Colydiidæ, founded by Latreille in 1796, containing four European species, one of which, O. clavicornis, extends into Siberia.

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