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Webster 1913 Edition
Rhachiglossa
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Rhachˊi-glos′sa
,Noun.
pl.
(Zool.)
A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the
miters
, murices
, olives
, purpuras
, volutes
, and whelks
. See Illust. in the Appendix.