Crossword-Solution: ANCYLUS
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ANCYLUS (5)
Sir Charles Lyell informs me that a Dyticus has been caught with an Ancylus (a fresh-water shell like a limpet) firmly adhering to it; and a water-beetle of the same family, a Colymbetes, once flew on board the “Beagle,” when forty-five miles distant from the nearest land: how much farther it might have been blown by a favouring gale no one can tell.
The univalve shells most characteristic of fresh-water deposits are, _Planorbis, Limnæa,_ and _Paludina._ (See Figures.) But to these are occasionally added _Physa, Succinea, Ancylus, Valvata, Melanopsis, Melania, Potamides,_ and _ Neritina_ (see Figures), the four last being usually found in estuaries.
Roper shot some ducks, and I found a species of Ancylus; besides the species of Limnaea and Paludina, which we had previously met with.
Limnaea, similar to those of Europe, creep along the surface of the water; small Planorbis live on the water-plants, to which also adhere Ancylus; and Paludina, Cyclas, and Unio, furrow its muddy bottom.
Along the shore were strewn shells thrown up by the surf; and on examining them, I found them all to belong to well-known old-world genera--Unio, Planorbis, Ancylus, and Ampullari.