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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of bivalve mollusks of the family Arcidæ, named by Lamarck in 1799. Also called Axinæa.
  • noun [lowercase; pl. pectunculi (-lī).] plural Fine longitudinal striations on the walls of the Sylvian aqueduct.

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