Crossword-Solution: TEREBELLUM
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
IDVNIE
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with TEREBELLUM (5)
Accordingly, in the marls belonging to this period at Asti, Parma, Sienna, and parts of the Tuscan and Roman territories, we observe the genera _Conus, Cypræa, Strombus, Pyrula, Mitra, Fasciolaria, Sigaretus, Delphinula, Ancillaria, Oliva, Terebellum, Terebra, Perna, Plicatula,_ and _Corbis_, some characteristic of tropical seas, others represented by species more numerous or of larger size than those now proper to the Mediterranean.
Thus, many species of _Conus_, _Mitra_, and _Voluta_ occur, a large _Cypræa_, a very large _Rostellaria_, and shells of the genera _Terebellum_, _Cancellaria_, _Crassatella_, and others, with four or more species of _Nautilus_ (see fig.
Cuming, the celebrated collector, lost a beautiful specimen of _Terebellum_, by the animal suddenly leaping into the water, as he was holding and admiring it in his hand.
Small bunches of _Terebellum subulatum_ are worn as earrings, and a large valve of _Avicula_ is employed as a head ornament in the centre of a fillet.
For instance, in the four known recent genera of the family Strombidae, _viz._ _Strombus_, _Pteroceras_, _Rostellaria_, and _Terebellum_, the radula is of the same general type throughout, but with distinct modifications for each genus; and the same is true, though to a lesser extent, for all the species hitherto examined in each of the genera.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1947).