Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a stromb; pertaining or related to the Strombidæ; strombiform.
- noun A strombine or stromb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or like, Strombus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Of, pertaining to, or resembling the
genus Strombus ofsea snails .
Etymologies
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Strombus + -oid
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Examples
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And, further, all stromboid testaceans have their shells on the right hand side, and move not in the direction of the spire, but the opposite way.
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The gut has its point of origin in the region of the coil of the mecon, or so-called ‘poppy’, and is wider hereabouts (for remember, the mecon is for the most part a sort of excretion in all testaceans); it then takes a bend and runs up again towards the fleshy part, and terminates by the side of the head, where the animal discharges its residuum; and this holds good in the case of all stromboid testaceans, whether terrestrial or marine.
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