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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any member of the genus Dentalium, family Dentaliidæ, order Solenoconchæ, or class Scaphopoda.
- noun A small marine mollusk, Marinula pellucida, whose shell is used in Australia for necklaces. E. E. Morris, Austral English.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth-shaped shell. See
dentalium .
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- noun Alternative form of
tooth shell .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing
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