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Radiolaria :: Radiolaria (n. pl.) Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina..

Turbinite :: Turbinite (n.) A petrified shell resembling the genus Turbo.

Extractor :: Extractor (n.) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.

Stria :: Stria (n.) A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell..

Kernel :: Kernel (n.) The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp..

Orthid :: Orthid (n.) A brachiopod shell of the genus Orthis, and allied genera, of the family Orthidae..

Turritella :: Turritella (n.) Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum..

Pelagian :: Pelagian (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; marine; pelagic; as, pelagian shells..

Toxoglossa :: Toxoglossa (n.pl.) A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and Terebra..

Polythalamia :: Polythalamia (n. pl.) A division of Foraminifera including those having a manychambered shell.

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.

Hard-shell :: Hard-shell (a.) Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.

Patella :: Patella (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food..

Sheller :: Sheller (n.) One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller..

Candlebomb :: Candlebomb (n.) A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.

Turban-shell :: Turban-shell (n.) A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

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

Dolium :: Dolium (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells..

Lamellibranchiata :: Lamellibranchiata (n. pl.) A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc..

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