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from The Century Dictionary.
- In Lamarck's classification, a family of trachelipod gastropods, having the aperture surrounded by a continuous lip or peristome, and including the genera Valvata, Paludina, and Ampullaria, now dissociated in different families. Also
Peristomidæ .—2. [l. c.] Plural ofperistoma .
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- noun Plural form of
peristoma .
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