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rhachiglossa
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A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters , murices , olives , purpuras , volutes , and whelks . See Illust. in the Appendix. [1913 Webster]
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