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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
VERMETUS
Ver
*
me
"
tus,
n.
Etym:
[
NL.
,
from
L.
vermis
worm.
] (Zoöl.)
Defn:
Any
one
of
many
species
of
marine
gastropods
belonging
to
Vermetus
and
allied
genera,
of
the
family
Vermetidæ.
Their
shells
are
regularly
spiral
when
young,
but
later
in
life
the
whorls
become
separate,
and
the
shell
is
often
irregularly
bent
and
contorted
like
a
worm
tube.
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