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Webster 1913 Edition


Vermetus

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Ver-me′tus

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Noun.
[NL., from L.
vermis
worm.]
(Zool.)
Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to
Vermetus
and allied genera, of the family
Vermetidae
. 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.