Definition of Serpulae

1. serpula [n] - See also: serpula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Serpulae

serpiginous
serpiginous choroidopathy
serpiginous corneal ulcer
serpiginous keratitis
serpiginous ulcer
serpiginously
serpigo
serpigoes
serpigos
serpin
serpinopathies
serpinopathy
serpins
serpolet
serpula
serpulae (current term)
serpulidan
serpulina
serpulina hyodysenteriae
serpulite
serpulites
serr
serrabrancaite
serrae
serran
serranid
serranid fish
serranids
serrano
serranoid

Literary usage of Serpulae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz: With a Sketch of His Life by Alexander Agassiz (1913)
"But the rising rim is not formed by the growth of the serpulae. The outer edge is merely protected by serpulae and Algae, and the surf breaking over that ..."

2. Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz: With a Sketch of His Life by Alexander Agassiz (1913)
"1 where the so-called reef is nothing but a series of islets and ledges overgrown by serpulae and Algae, which, iu the long stretch from Tinker's Farm [? ..."

3. Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz: With a Sketch of His Life by Alexander Agassiz (1913)
"But the rising rim is no t formed by the growth of the serpulae. The outer edge is merely protected by -LWH suri breaking over that protected edge digs out ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"We have already said, that M. de Lamarck divides the serpulae of Linnaeus into four genera: these are serpula proper, spirorbis, ..."

5. Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell (1838)
"Now these serpulae could only have begun to grow after the death of some of the stone-lilies, parts of whose skeletons had been strewed over the floor of ..."

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