Crossword-Solution: SERPULA
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| Serpula | n. | Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts. |
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| SERPULA | anagram | PERUSAL |
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| type of marine mollusc | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Discharge
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Sentences with SERPULA (5)
Near Port Louis, when turning over some large stones, which lay in the bed of a stream at the head of a protected creek, and at the height of some yards above the level of spring tides, I found several shells of serpula still adhering to their under sides.
The full-grown _ Serpula_, therefore, which now adheres externally, could not have begun to grow till the _Micraster_ had died, and the spines became detached.
Below the marls are seen, at Meup’s Bay, more than thirty feet of brackish-water strata, abounding in a species of _Serpula,_ allied to, if not identical with, _Serpula coacervites,_ found in beds of the same age in Hanover.
When the carboniferous forests sank below high-water mark, a species of _Spirorbis_ or _Serpula_ (Fig.
Another worm builds of sand or mud, with a rough casting of fine gravel and shell-grit, a habitation similar in design to that of the serpula, though on a less complete and authoritative model; indeed, it would almost seem that the latter had designed its tenement after the fashion of that of its poor relation--that the one made a study in mud which the other reproduced in carbonate of lime.