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

Gyration :: Gyration (n.) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.

Buccinum :: Buccinum (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).

Cingulum :: Cingulum (n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

Marginella :: Marginella (n.) A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas..

Mollusca :: Mollusca (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or m

Labrum :: Labrum (n.) The external margin of the aperture of a shell. See Univalve.

Peritreme :: Peritreme (n.) The edge of the aperture of a univalve shell.

Nucleus :: Nucleus (n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell..

Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.

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

Univalvular :: Univalvular (a.) Same as Univalve, a..

Ear-shell :: Ear-shell (n.) A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis; -- called also sea-ear. See Abalone.

Whorl :: Whorl (n. & v.) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell..

Boat Shell :: Boat shell () A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.

Goroon Shell :: Goroon shell () A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale)..

Strombite :: Stromb (n.) Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus..

Discoid :: Discoid (a.) Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus..

Varix :: Varix (n.) One of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.

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

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