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

Cardol :: Cardol (n.) A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut..

Bulimus :: Bulimus (n.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America..

Vermetus :: Vermetus (n.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube..

Concho-spiral :: Concho-spiral (n.) A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.

Exuviae :: Exuviae (n. pl.) The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

Limax :: Limax (n.) A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug..

Holostomatous :: Holostomatous (a.) Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells.

Tortoise :: Tortoise (n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color..

Cerite :: Cerite (n.) A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form.

Chambered :: Chambered (a.) Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun..

Auricula :: Auricula (n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

Septum :: Septum (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus..

Cockleshell :: Cockleshell (n.) One of the shells or valves of a cockle.

Siphonifer :: Siphonifer (n.) Any cephalopod having a siphonate 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..

Crustaceousness :: Crustaceousness (n.) The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.

Soft-shelled :: Soft-shelled (a.) Having a soft or fragile shell.

Melon :: Melon (n.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo..

Gladius :: Gladius (n.) The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids..

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