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from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of short-tailed ten-footed crustaceans, typified by the genus Porcellana, so called from the smoothness and hardness of the shell; the porcelain-crabs. The antennæ are very long, and the chelæ of great size.
- In conchology, a family of gastropods: commonly called
Marginellidæ .
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