Definition of Pleuratoma
||Pleu*rot"o*ma (?), n.; pl. L.
Pleurotomæ (#), E.
Pleurotomas (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; the side +
tomh` a cut.] (Zoöl.) Any marine gastropod
belonging to Pleurotoma, and ether allied genera of the family
Pleurotmidæ. The species are very numerous, especially in
tropical seas. The outer lip has usually a posterior notch or
slit.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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