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Webster 1913 Edition

Pholas

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Pho′las

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Pholades

(#)

.

[NL., fr. Gr.

φωλάς

,

φωλάδος

, a kind of mollusk.]

(Zool.)

Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus

Pholas

, or family

Pholadidæ

. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.