Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of gastropods having a pyriform shell, whence the name; the fig-shells or pear-shells. (See cut under
fig-shell .) Very different limits have been assigned to it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of large marine gastropods having a pear-shaped shell. It includes the fig-shells. See
Illust. in Appendix.
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Examples
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The occurrence of marine shells in a burial depository, especially of the varieties pyrula and oliva, four or five hundred miles from the
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She was a genuine, native-born huckster again from head to foot; dignified but wary, and watchful for the least incident which might possibly be coined into profitable traffic -- the whole visible woman breathing an atmosphere of the present moment, with her entire being moulded to the orthodox market pattern as completely as a mollusk is fashioned to his familiar shell; or as a hermit crab, whether he has thrust his body into a snail shell or into a pyrula, patterns himself upon the model of the new house which he has adopted.
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She was a genuine, native-born huckster again from head to foot; dignified but wary, and watchful for the least incident which might possibly be coined into profitable traffic -- the whole visible woman breathing an atmosphere of the present moment, with her entire being moulded to the orthodox market pattern as completely as a mollusk is fashioned to his familiar shell; or as a hermit crab, whether he has thrust his body into a snail shell or into a pyrula, patterns himself upon the model of the new house which he has adopted.
The Market Woman 1870
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She was a genuine, native-born huckster again from head to foot; dignified but wary, and watchful for the least incident which might possibly be coined into profitable traffic -- the whole visible woman breathing an atmosphere of the present moment, with her entire being moulded to the orthodox market pattern as completely as a mollusk is fashioned to his familiar shell; or as a hermit crab, whether he has thrust his body into a snail shell or into a pyrula, patterns himself upon the model of the new house which he has adopted.
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Only one species is peculiar to Kashmir, a very normal bullfinch (pyrula). "
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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