loxonematoid

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adjective

Resembling or belonging to the genus †Loxonema of extinct gastropods.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

adjectiveloxonematoid (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyResembling or belonging to the genus †Loxonema of extinct gastropods.

    Specimens minute, high-spired, loxonematoid shells with slightly sinuate transverse costae on ephebic whorls.

    1953, Journal of Paleontology, volume 27, page 698
nounloxonematoid (plural loxonematoids)

plural loxonematoids

  1. biologyAny gastropod resembling or belonging to the genus †Loxonema.
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Chicago

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