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Brachiopod   /brˈeɪkiəpˌɑd/   Listen
Brachiopod

noun
1.
Marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide.  Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell.



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... One, I hope, would be some sort of Terebratula, or shell akin to it. You would probably think it a cockle: but you would be wrong. The animal which dwells in it has about the same relationship to a cockle as a dog has to a bird. It is a Brachiopod; a family with which the ancient seas once swarmed, but which is rare now, all over the world, having been supplanted and driven out of the seas by newer and stronger forms of shelled animals. The nearest spot at which you are likely to dredge a live Brachiopod will be in the deep water of Loch ...
— Town Geology • Charles Kingsley



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