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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of asiphonate bivalves, of the family Arcidæ, or ark-shells, having a somewhat square gibbous shell with hinge-teeth oblique at the middle and parallel with the hinge at the ends. The species are chiefly fossil.

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