Crossword-Solution: SPIRULA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spirula | n. | A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPIRULA | anagram | SIRPAUL |
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| Mollusk genus | 6 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEGA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SPIRULA (5)
There is nothing like this in the vegetable world; but an exactly corresponding structure is met with in the shells of two kinds of existing animals, the pearly _Nautilus_ and the _Spirula,_ and only in them.
The shell of _Nautilus_ is external, that of _Spirula_ internal; _Nautilus_ has four gills, _Spirula_ two; _Nautilus_ has multitudinous tentacles, _Spirula_ has only ten arms beset with horny-rimmed suckers; _Spirula,_ like the squids and cuttle-fishes, which it closely resembles, has a bag of ink which it squirts out to cover its retreat when alarmed; _Nautilus_ has none.
The manuscript was finally sent off to the printer's on April 6, unlike the still longer unfinished memoir on Spirula, to which allusion is made here, among other business of the "Challenger" Committee, of which he was a member.
Evans:--] Spirula is a horrid burden on my conscience--but nobody could make head or tail of the business but myself.
Director of the "Reports of the 'Challenger'."], If the plates of Spirula could be turned to account a great burthen would be taken off my mind.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).