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Peeper :: Peeper (n.) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

Solenacean :: Solenacean (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidae.

Electrophorus :: Electrophorus (n.) An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal..

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..

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

Coronal :: Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.

Escalop :: Escalop (n.) A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.

Buccinoid :: Buccinoid (a.) Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata..

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

Nutshell :: Nutshell (n.) Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value..

Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.

Splintery :: Splinterproof (a.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells..

Shell :: Shell (v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc..

Purple :: Purple (n.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.

Limpet :: Limpet (n.) In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell..

Solen :: Solen (n.) Any marine bivalve mollusk belonging to Solen or allied genera of the family Solenidae; a razor shell.

Alveolus :: Alveolus (n.) A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil.

Cerite :: Cerite (n.) A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form.

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo..

Natica :: Natica (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidae.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells..

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