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A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and wh…

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  1. n. pl. A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.
  2. A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.
  3. A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscisand three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes manyof the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives,purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.