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from The Century Dictionary.
- Rhipidoglossate mollusks; a large group, variously called order, suborder, or division, of prosobranchiate gastropods, characterized by a heart with two auricles and a ventricle, and teeth of the odontophore in many marginal rows; the other teeth are generally a median, several admedian, and numerous marginal on each side.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See
Illustration in Appendix.
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fbharjo commented on the word rhipidoglossa
a beautiful natural row set
February 7, 2012