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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several large marine bivalve mollusks of the family Pinnidae, having a thin wedge-shaped or fan-shaped shell.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the resemblance of their shells to quill pens .]
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