Crossword-Solution: TEREBRA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Terebra | n. | A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell. |
| Terebra | n. | The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TEREBRA | anagram | BERATER, BERRETA, REBATER |
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Sentences with TEREBRA (5)
Then, near Lisbon, the commonest sea-shells, namely, three species of Oliva, a Voluta, and a Terebra, would have a tropical character.
Referring to Table 4 we find that the existing species of the genera Cassis, Pyrula, Pleurotoma, Terebra, and Sigaretus, which are generally (though by no means invariably) characteristic of warmer latitudes, do not at the present day range nearly so far south on this line of coast as the fossil species formerly did.
Several of the most tropical genera have no representative fossils at Navidad; and there are only single species of Cassis, Pyrula, and Sigaretus, two of Pleurotoma and two of Terebra, but none of these species are of conspicuous size.
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 it contains seven species of Cypræa, some larger than any existing cowry of the Mediterranean, several species of _Oliva, Ancillaria, Mitra, Terebra, Pyrula, Fasciolaria,_ and _ Conus._ Of the cones there are no less than eight species, some very large, whereas the only European cone now living is of diminutive size.