Crossword-Solution: DENTALIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dentalium | n. | A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell. |
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| type of mollusc | 5 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with DENTALIUM (5)
About the neck were long wampum necklaces with _dentalium, unionida, and auricula,_ interspersed with beads.
These delicate fairies make moveable cases, or rather pipes, of the finest sand, generally curved, and resembling in shape the Dentalium shell.
They were not tattooed, but ears and noses were encumbered with pendants of dentalium and a small red glass bead.
The results are much less uniformly geometric than where the fabric is followed; yet the mere adding of the figures, stitch by stitch or part by part, is sufficient to impart a large share of geometricity, as may be seen in the buckskin bead work and in the dentalium and quill work of the Indians.
Other skins are rated as multiples or submultiples of this.[338] In Washington Territory dentalium and abelone shells were the money, also slaves, skins, and blankets, until the closer contact with whites produced changes.[339] The Karok use as money the red scalps of woodpeckers which are rated at from $2.50 to $5.00 each, and also dentalium shells of which they grind off the tip.