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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A round clam; a member of the Mactridæ (where see cut), especially the British Mactra solida and M. stultorum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See
mactra .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
bivalve shell of thegenus Mactra.
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