Crossword-Solution: DENTALIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dentalium | n. | A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell. |
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| type of mollusc | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DENTALIUM (5)
About the neck were long wampum necklaces with _dentalium, unionida, and auricula,_ interspersed with beads.
These delicate fairies make moveable cases, or rather pipes, of the finest sand, generally curved, and resembling in shape the Dentalium shell.
They were not tattooed, but ears and noses were encumbered with pendants of dentalium and a small red glass bead.
The results are much less uniformly geometric than where the fabric is followed; yet the mere adding of the figures, stitch by stitch or part by part, is sufficient to impart a large share of geometricity, as may be seen in the buckskin bead work and in the dentalium and quill work of the Indians.
Other skins are rated as multiples or submultiples of this.[338] In Washington Territory dentalium and abelone shells were the money, also slaves, skins, and blankets, until the closer contact with whites produced changes.[339] The Karok use as money the red scalps of woodpeckers which are rated at from $2.50 to $5.00 each, and also dentalium shells of which they grind off the tip.