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Meaning of INOCERAMUS

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\In`o*cer"a*mus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, a muscle + ?
an earthen vessel.] (Paleon.)
An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve shells,allied to
the mussels. The genus is characteristic of the Cretaceous
period.

 

 

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