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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of small fossil Crustacea of the order Ostracoda, with ovate or oblong bivalve shells. They occur abundantly in some shales and limestones of Lower Paleozoic age.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eng. Law) The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.

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