Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of mollusks without distinct head or cephalic eyes, with the branchiæ on each side of the body and generally expanded in a plate-like or lamelliform manner, and with a shell of two lateral valves completely or partly inclosing the body.
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-- Description of the cephalopods, gasteropods and lamellibranchiata.
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The cephalopods of the system are all of an obsolete type, that disappeared myriads of ages ago, -- a remark which, with the exceptions just intimated, and perhaps one or two others, applies equally to its brachipods; but of at least two of its intermediate families, -- the gasteropoda and lamellibranchiata, -- several of the forms resemble those of recent shells of the temperate latitudes.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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