Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An extensive genus of arthropomatous brachiopods, formerly including all those loosely known as lamp-shells, now restricted as type of the family Terebratulidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also
lamp shell .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the genus Terebratula of
brachiopods .
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Examples
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Fossils of belemnite, cockles (cardium), and lamp-shells (terebratula) have been found in the chalk, and numerous echini, with the pentagon star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shepherds 'Crowns -- or even fossil toads.
John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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The mollusca of the Silurians ranged from the high cephalopoda, represented in our existing seas by the nautili and the cuttle-fishes, to the low brachipods, some of whose congeners may still be detected in the terebratula of our Highland lochs and bays, and some in the lingulæ of the southern hemisphere.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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