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Webster 1913 Edition
Aptychus
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Ap′ty-chus
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ἀ
priv. + [GREEK], [GREEK], fold.] (Zool.)
A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.