Thesaurus: vermetus

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1. n. Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
2. Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidæ. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
3. Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging toVermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidæ. Their shells areregularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls becomeseparate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted likea worm tube.