Crossword-Solution: NERITA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nerita | n. | A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NERITA | anagram | ARENTI, EARNIT, ETRAIN, NAITRE, RATINE, RETAIN, RETINA, TAINER, TEARIN, TINEAR, TIRANE |
We have 6 clues for the answer “NERITA”
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| Genus of snails | 1 answer |
| Genus of marine snails. | 2 answers |
| genus animal life snails | 2 answers |
| snails genus animal life | 2 answers |
| Sea snail | 8 answers |
| Marine snail | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
OINEOMT
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with NERITA (5)
Look among the beds of sea-weed for a few of the bright yellow or green sea-snails (Nerita), or Conical Tops (Trochus), especially that beautiful pink one spotted with brown (Ziziphinus), which you are sure to find about shaded rock-ledges at dead low tide, and put them into your aquarium.
Names in abundance were given it by successive observers,--Nerita, Sciacca, Fernandina, Julia, Hotham, Corrao, and Graham.
The genus _Nerita,_ and many others, are also represented by individuals of a type now characteristic of equatorial seas, and wholly unlike any Mediterranean forms.
The shelly strata, also, have occasionally suffered denudation, and the removed portions have been replaced by clay.” In such shallow-water beds shells of the genera _Patella, Nerita, Rimula, Cylindrites_ are common (see Figs.
Juvat, in Brittany), _Calyptræa, Hipponyx, Nerita, Erato, Oliva, Ancillaria,_ and _ Fasciolaria._ These tuffs of the southern shores of the Grand Canary, containing the Upper Miocene shells, appear to be about the same age as the most ancient volcanic rocks of the island, composed of slaty diabase, phonolite, and trachyte.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1945–1985).