Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a sinuous pallial margin and consequent sinuous impression on the shell along the line of attachment of the mantle.

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

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Having a pallial sinus. See under sinus.

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  • adjective zoology Having a pallial sinus.

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  • "By the marked reduction in the -- Brachiopods compared with the now richly developed Gasteropods and -- and sinupalliate -- Lamellibranchs," -- it writhed and twisted before his dizzy eyes.

    Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

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