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from The Century Dictionary.
- In Illiger's classification (1811), the tenth order and also the thirtieth family of mammals, composed of the monotremes together with a certain tortoise (Pamphractus).
- In Mollusca, those azygobranehiate gastropods which are adapted for creeping or crawling by the formation of the foot as a creeping-disk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lobsters; crabs
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