Crossword-Solution: ANOMIA 6 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The many-colored Acalephæ float by; the many-armed Sepiadæ shoot over; while shells that love the profounder depths,--the black Modiola and delicate Anomia,--anchor along the sides of the mass; and where thickets of the deep-sea tangle spread out their long, streamer-like fronds to the tide, the strong Cyprina and many-ribbed Astarte shelter by scores amid the reticulations of the short woody stems and thick-set roots.

Gray suggests that as the animal is known to have the faculty of living for a very long time out of water, it is more probable that it was brought in Russian timber, than borne uninjured through the salt water at the bottom of a vessel.[921] A lobster (_Astacus marinus_) was lately taken alive covered with living mussels (_Mytilus edulis_)[922]; and a large female crab (_Cancer pagurus_), covered with oysters, and bearing also _Anomia ephippium_, and Actiniæ, was taken in April, 1832, off the English coast.

Another shell of the same family, the Anomia walteri (not shown on plate), is found at the Bay of Islands, and is usually coloured bright yellow or orange.

Matthew it is the workers of anomia, οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν ἀνομίαν,(465) by which Hilgenfeld thinks the Pauline anti‐legalists are not obscurely hinted at, who are hurled into outer darkness.

When Linnæus formed this genus and named it Anomia, he probably did so from its having no determinate character.