Word Meanings - ASPIDOBRANCHIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

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• GASTROPODA
  One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually
• ABALONE
  A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.
• KEYHOLE
  1. A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key. A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them. a mortise for a key or cotter. Keyhole limpet , a marine gastropod of the genus
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• GROUP
  A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
• GROUPER
  One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper , and the black grouper, or warsaw , both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail .
• GROUPING
  The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• AGROUPMENT
  See AGGROUPMENT
• LARAMIE GROUP
  An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character.
• POTSDAM GROUP
  A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.
• QUEBEC GROUP
  The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.
• BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
  Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
• COLORADO GROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• AGGROUP
  To bring together in a group; to group. Dryden.
• DAKOTA GROUP
  A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.
• CONGO GROUP
  A group of artificial dyes with an affinity for vegetable fibers, so that no mordant is required. Most of them are azo compounds derived from benzidine or tolidine. Called also benzidine dyes.