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Definition of Littorina
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Littorinidae: periwinkles.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Family Littorinidae, Littorinidae
Member holonyms: Periwinkle, Winkle
Definition of Littorina
1. n. A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.
Medical Definition of Littorina
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Littorina
Literary usage of Littorina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John Mason Tyler (1921)
"... the maximum of the littorina depression and epoch of kitchen-middens at 6000
BC, full Neolithic at 4500 BC, beginning of Bronze period 1700 BC2 Keilhack ..."
2. Index Testaceologicus: An Illustrated Catalogue of British and Foreign by William Wood, Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1856)
"... black and white littorina Helix paradoxa, Born.— Chrysostomus N. Ch. v. 216, f.
1822-5.— Nerita c. Karst. i. pi. 4, f. 7.—TN Lam. —Kien. pi. 36, f. 5. ..."
3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"SNAIL, littorina LITTOREA.1 SAKYO KANDA. CONTENTS. Introduction Material and
Methods 58 Experiments 61 i. Preliminary Experiments with Gravity and Light 61 ..."
4. A Manual of the Mollusca: Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1880)
"Tho species inhabit tho sea, or brackish water, and are mostly littoral, feeding
on alga). littorina, Ferussac. Periwinkle. Etymology, littoralis, belonging ..."
5. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"... Arctic shell-beds—Ee-elevation—Arctic plant-beds— The Baltic a fresh-water
lake—Immigration of flora—Re-submergence ; littorina-beds—Later glaciers—Dr. ..."
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