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Definition of Bubble shell
1. Noun. Marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell.
Definition of Bubble shell
1. Noun. (zoology) A marine univalve shell of the genus ''Bulla'' and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Bubble shell
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Literary usage of Bubble shell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living by Julia Ellen Rogers (1908)
"The largest bubble shell is B. ampulla, Linn., from the Philippines, ... It has
the form of the typical bubble shell, and lives in muddy shores near the ..."
2. A Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Islands by William Turton (1840)
"(bubble shell.) The body spiral, on the middle of an elongate foot; the mantle
large, ... Stream bubble shell, (t. 9. f. 110.) Shell horn-colour, oval, ..."
3. Comparative Zoology, Structural and Systematic: For Use in Schools and Colleges by James Orton, Charles Wright Dodge (1895)
"nulla ampulla, or " Bubble-shell :" three ... which discharges a purple fluid,
and the Bubble-shell (Butta). 3. Pulmonates. ..."
4. Rambles in Search of Shells, Land and Freshwater by James Edmund Harting (1875)
"The stream bubble-shell, Ph. fontinalis (PI. VI., fig. ... The slender bubble-shell,
Ph. hypnorum, is rather more local, affecting ponds, ditches, ..."