Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bivalve mollusk of the family Donacidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
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There are several varieties of these archaic relics, some flat, others lenticular or of a wedge-shell shape, and others, still, concave on one side and convex on the other.
The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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