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Dreissena :: Dreissena (n.) A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.

Conchyliaceous :: Conchyliaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions..

Shellfish :: Shellfish (n.) Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs..

Angiostomous :: Angiostomous (a.) With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods..

Skimmer :: Skimmer (n.) Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops..

Orthoceras :: Orthoceras (n.) An extinct genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, conical shell. The interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa..

Bulla :: Bulla (n.) A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.

Terebratuliform :: Terebratuliform (a.) Having the general form of a terebratula 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..

Shellac :: Shellac (n.) See the Note under 2d Lac.

Lance :: Lance (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.

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

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..

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

Planorbis :: Planorbis (n.) Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form..

Mammillated :: Mammillated (a.) Bounded like a nipple; -- said of the apex of some shells.

Ootype :: Ootype (n.) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

Interdome :: Interdome (n.) The open space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola of masonry.

Ostracea :: Ostracea (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

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

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