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Webster 1913 Edition


Carinaria

Carˊi-na′ri-a

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Noun.
[NL., fr. L.
carina
keel.]
(Zool.)
A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.

Definition 2024


carinaria

carinaria

See also: Carinaria

English

Noun

carinaria (plural carinarias)

  1. (zoology) Any of the genus Carinaria of oceanic heteropod molluscs.