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Capsule :: Capsule (n.) A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc..

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin..

Tulip-shell :: Tulip-shell (n.) A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell (Fasciolaria tulipa) native of the Southern United States. The name is sometimes applied also to other species of Fasciolaria..

Polythalamous :: Polythalamous (a.) Many-chambered; -- applied to shells of Foraminifera and cephalopods. See Illust. of Nautilus.

Neomenoidea :: Neomenoidea (n. pl.) A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura..

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..

Plastron :: Plastron (n.) The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.

Shell :: Shell (n.) Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering..

Beak :: Beak (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve..

Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell..

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

Conchiferous :: Conchiferous (a.) Producing or having shells.

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.

Spirulate :: Spirula (n.) A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact..

Scrimshaw :: Scrimshaw (n.) A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed..

Decollated :: Decollated (a.) Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells..

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..

Betel Nut :: Betel nut () The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime..

Sepiostare :: Sepiostare (n.) The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

Thecosomata :: Thecosomata (n. pl.) An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See Pteropoda.

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