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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Paleozoic brachiopods with elaborate brachidium usually consisting of a single pair of spirals placed base to base and connected by a saddle-shaped loop. Processes from this loop extend backward, and may be produced between the primary lamellæ of the spirals.
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