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Webster 1913 Edition

Turban-shell

Tur′ban-shellˊ

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Noun.
(Zool.)
A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; – popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

Webster 1828 Edition

Turban-shell

TUR'BAN-SHELL

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Noun.
In natural history, a genus of shells, or rather of sea urchins, (echinodermata,) of a hemispheric or spheroidal shape, the Cidaris of Klein.

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