testacean

English

Etymology

From Latin testaceus (“having a shell”) +‎ -an.

Adjective

testacean (comparative more testacean, superlative most testacean)

1. Covered with or having a shell.

Noun

testacean (plural testaceans)

1. (zoology) One of the rhizopods in Testacea.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “testacean”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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