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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An order of Pteropoda, having a mantle-skirt and shell: contrasted with Gymnosomata.

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

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See pteropoda.

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