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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fossil oyster or some similar shell; a fossil referred to an old genus Ostracites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A fossil oyster.
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- noun paleontology A
fossil oyster .
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