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Vasum :: Vasum (n.) A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella..

Phragmocone :: Phragmocone (n.) The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.

Shell :: Shell (n.) The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms..

Crush :: Crush (v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily..

Articulata :: Articulata (v.) One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge..

Shrapnel :: Shrapnel (a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.

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

Apodeme :: Apodeme (n.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea..

Conchite :: Conchite (n.) A fossil or petrified conch or shell.

Right-handed :: Right-handed (a.) Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.

Valve :: Valve (n.) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.

Cuttle Bone :: Cuttle bone () The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc..

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.

Miliola :: Miliola (n.) A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers..

Balanite :: Balanite (n.) A fossil balanoid shell.

Marine :: Marine (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine..

Pallial :: Pallial (a.) Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve..

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

Turban :: Turban (n.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.

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

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