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Striatum :: Striation (n.) A stria; as, the striations on a shell..

Marron :: Marron (a.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon..

Slit-shell :: Slit-shell (n.) Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas..

Gryphaea :: Gryphaea (n.) A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.

Nutshell :: Nutshell (n.) A shell of the genus Nucula.

Inoceramus :: Inoceramus (n.) An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve shells,allied to the mussels. The genus is characteristic of the Cretaceous period..

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell..

Harpa :: Harpa (n.) A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs..

Beak :: Beak (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

Chlamyphore :: Chlamyphore (n.) A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine..

Recent :: Recent (a.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells..

Conch :: Conch (n.) A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo..

Columbella :: Columbella (n.) A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money..

Murex :: Murex (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas..

Electrophorus :: Electrophorus (n.) An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal..

Mammillated :: Mammillated (a.) Bounded like a nipple; -- said of the apex of some shells.

Argonauta :: Argonauta (n.) A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

Operculated :: Operculated (a.) Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes..

Siphonostome :: Siphonostome (n.) A siphonostomatous shell.

Escalop :: Escalop (n.) A bearing or a charge consisting of an escalop shell.

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