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Definition of Terebra
1. n. A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.
Definition of Terebra
1. a boring instrument [n TEREBRAS or TEREBRAE]
Medical Definition of Terebra
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Origin: L, a borer.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Terebra
Literary usage of Terebra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Turton Collection of South African Marine Mollusks: With by Paul Bartsch (1915)
"Í terebra DIVERSA Smith. Cat. No. 18, USNM, one specimen collected by William
Stimpson on the North Pacific Exploring Expedition at Fulse Bay. ..."
2. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands by New York Academy of Sciences (1920)
"The type of terebra cirrus was described by Dall from Rio Amina, Santo Domingo,
... In ornamentation terebra cirrus resembles the Isthmian species T. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1921)
"Length 2.8, altitude 2.2, diameter 1.5 mm. Oahu: Haleiwa, on the beach, Pilsbry,
1913. Probably immature. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XII. Fig. 1.—terebra ..."
4. Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Invertebrata by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1856)
"Two worn and broken specimens of a terebra. Locality unnoted. 677. Five sp^a^ns
of terebra plicatula, Lam. From tt£ eocene strata of the Paris basin. ..."
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