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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.

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  • As to the molluscs, they consisted of some I had already observed -- turritellas, olive porphyras, with regular lines intercrossed, with red spots standing out plainly against the flesh; odd pteroceras, like petrified scorpions; translucid hyaleas, argonauts, cuttle-fish (excellent eating), and certain species of calmars that naturalists of antiquity have classed amongst the flying-fish, and that serve principally for bait for cod-fishing.

    Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

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