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Definition of Genus strombus
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Strombidae.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Family Strombidae, Strombidae
Member holonyms: Conch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Strombus
Literary usage of Genus strombus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"174, 175. Clench, William James, and Abbott, R. Tucker 1941. The genus Strombus
in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia, vol. 1, No. 1, 15 pp., 10 pis. 1942. ..."
2. Transactions of the Geological Society of London by Geological Society of London (1856)
"They are both abnormal forms of the genus Strombus. Locality, Pondicherry, where
it appears to be common. 2. Strombus contortus, GB Sowerby, MSS. ..."
3. Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting by John Lee Comstock (1836)
"genus strombus. Shell univalve, spiral, expanded; aperture having the lip unusually
dilated, and ending in a canal inclined towards the left, ..."
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