melanian
English
From the obsolete genus Melania.
Noun
melanian (plural melanians)
- (malacology, obsolete) One of a family of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks with a turret-shaped shell, the Lua error in Module:parameters at line 848: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., which is now considered a synonym for the Thiaridae(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “melanian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)