slit-shell

See also: slitshell

English

Wikispecies

Noun

slit-shell (plural slit-shells)

  1. Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of pearly spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for slit-shell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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