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  • noun A genus of teleodesmaceous pelecypods belonging to the family Pleurophoridæ.

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Examples

  • How about some nice words for Aunt-chilada, Auntie-pasto, Aunt-hill and maybe Aunt-arctica?

    brouillon - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • In the first complete census of these well-known birds, the British wildlife ecologist and his colleagues are scanning high-resolution satellite photos of Ant arctica for penguins, like military analysts searching for Iranian rocket sites.

    For Penguins, a Satellite Census 2010

  • How about some nice words for Aunt-chilada, Auntie-pasto, Aunt-hill and maybe Aunt-arctica?

    brouillon - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Phylogeography of the circumpolar '' Paranoplocephala arctica '' species complex (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) parasitizing collared lemmings ( '' Dicrostonyx '' spp.).

    Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009

  • The latter conclusion is supported by the phylogeography (relationship between genetic identity and geographic distribution) of the '' Paranoplocephala arctica '' species complex, a cestode parasite of '' Dicrostonyx '' spp., indicating that two subclades probably survived the LGM with their host in the Canadian High Arctic [7].

    Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009

  • Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), dovekie (little auk), razorbills (Alca torda), and black guillemots are legally hunted in Labrador.

    Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009

  • A similar physiological system is used in some seabirds, such as the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), a vital oily food in the diet of the former inhabitants of the North Atlantic island of St. Kilda [5].

    Conservation of arctic species 2009

  • The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala).

    Alaska Peninsula montane taiga 2008

  • This includes the world's largest colony of northern gannet Morus bassanus - 60,428 pairs in 1999/2000, 23.6% of the northeastern Atlantic population; the largest and oldest British colony of northern fulmar Fulmaris glacialis (67,000 pairs); and 30% of the British population of the Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica (135,732 pairs).

    St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom 2008

  • It is characterized by diminutive hardy vegetation such as low-growing willow Salix arctica and dwarf birch Betula glandulosa, heath Cassiope tetragona, mountain avens Dryas integrifolia, D. hookeriania, sedge Carex nigricans, Kobresia bellardii, Phyllodoce glandulifolia and Antennaria lanata.

    Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Canada 2008

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