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Periwinkle

Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina The common European species Littorina littorea

A chicken just breaking the shell a young bird

A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth in Sussex

The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite

South American edentate Chlamyphorus truncatus allied to the armadillos The shell is attached only along the back

as the plongeacutee of a parapet the plongeacutee of a shell in its course

a group of tortoises Potamites or Trionychoidea having a soft shell webbed feet and a sharp beak See Trionyx

A small British and American pond snail Bulinus hypnorum

extinct genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda having a long straight conical shell The interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa

An orthoceras also any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras