Crossword-Solution: TRIDACNA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tridacna | n. | A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell. |
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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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Sentences with TRIDACNA (5)
The large shells of some species of Tridacna would be found vertically imbedded in the solid rock, in the position in which they lived.
Before our coral garden was as familiar as it is, it was said that on one of the reefs of Dunk Island there reposed a colossal clam--one of the giants of the variety known to science as TRIDACNA GIGAS.
The tridacna were afterward procured in a safe boat, thirty of them taking the place of three tons of cement ballast, which I threw overboard to make room and give buoyancy.
Further down were various shells, especially bķnitiers ( Tridacna gigantea) the harp (here called "Sirinbßz"), and the pearl-oyster; sheep-bones and palm charcoal; pottery admirably "cooked," as the Bedawin remarked; and glass of surprising thinness, iridized by damp to rainbow hues.
Amongst them is the monstrous Tridacna (gigantea), which sometimes attains a growth of a yard and a half; one of these is used as a bķnitier at the church of Saint Sulpice, Paris.