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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common slipper-limpet or half-deck, Crepidula fornicata.
- noun The English name of the shells of the genus Cymbium or Cymba, belonging to the family Volutidæ. See cut under
Cymbium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.
- A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A
marine gastropod of thegenus Crepidula. Thespecies are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck. - noun zoology A marine
univalve shell of the genus Cymbium, syn. Cymba.
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