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testacea

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin testāceus (covered with a shell).

Noun

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testacea pl (plural only)

  1. (biology, obsolete) Any of various shellfish, especially those of the obsolete orders Vermes or Acephala, or the suborder Thecosomata.
    • 1722, John Jones (tr.), Oppian's Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients, page 231:
      ANAIMONA, Aquatilia Exanguia, Bloodless Fishes, are divided into Mollia Soft Fishes without Shells; Crustata, those that are covered with thin pliant Shells; and Testacea, those which have thick, hard brittle Shells.
    • 1829, Andrew Ure, A New System of Geology, page 285:
      The echinite family [] may be deemed characteristic of the chalk formation, affording of itself as many shells as the other testacea do.
    • 1832, Charles Lyell, chapter I, in Principles of Geology [] , volume II, London: John Murray, page 11:
      [] to fancy, for example, that the testacea of the ocean existed first, until some of them, by gradual evolution, were improved into those inhabiting the land.

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testacea (uncountable)

  1. (rare, obsolete) A testaceous substance, something made of shell or shell-like material.

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Italian

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Adjective

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testacea

  1. feminine singular of testaceo

Latin

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Adjective

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testācea

  1. inflection of testāceus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

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testāceā

  1. ablative feminine singular of testāceus