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A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called

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A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.

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• SHELL-LESS
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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• CALLOW
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• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• CLASSIFICATORY
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• CLASSICISM
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• HAVENER
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• CLASSIS
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• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
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• NOTOTHERIUM
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• GYMNASTICALLY
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• HYPERCRITICALLY
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