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from The Century Dictionary.

In old systems, a family of bivalves whose shells are pearly or nacreous inside; the pearl-oysters: same as Aviculidœ or Pteriidæ.

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Antennaria margaritacea, R.B. T. and G. Gnaphalium margaritaceum, L.Ell. Sk. Cat - weed; life - everlasting.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863
The rare _Cypræa umbilicata_ (Sowerby) inhabits Bass 'Strait, as also _Trigonia margaritacea_ (Lam.), _Valuta papillaris_ (Swainson), _Venus lamellata_

The History of Tasmania, Volume I John West 1840
Habitat --- tejia intus margaritacea, verticit acumi 'nati fundique macula aurautia. is.

Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis .. 1788

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