testacea
See also: Testacea
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin testāceus (“covered with a shell”).
Noun edit
testacea pl (plural only)
- (biology, obsolete) Any of various shellfish, especially those of the obsolete orders Vermes or Acephala, or the suborder Thecosomata.
- 1722, John Jones (tr.), Oppian's Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients, page 231:
- ANAIMONA, Aquatilia Exanguia, Bloodless Fishes, are divided into Mollia Soft Fishes without Shells; Crustata, those that are covered with thin pliant Shells; and Testacea, those which have thick, hard brittle Shells.
- 1829, Andrew Ure, A New System of Geology, page 285:
- The echinite family […] may be deemed characteristic of the chalk formation, affording of itself as many shells as the other testacea do.
- 1832, Charles Lyell, chapter I, in Principles of Geology […] , volume II, London: John Murray, page 11:
- […] to fancy, for example, that the testacea of the ocean existed first, until some of them, by gradual evolution, were improved into those inhabiting the land.
Noun edit
testacea (uncountable)
- (rare, obsolete) A testaceous substance, something made of shell or shell-like material.
See also edit
- Testacea (Translingual)
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testacea
Latin edit
Adjective edit
testācea
- inflection of testāceus:
Adjective edit
testāceā