testacea
See also: Testacea
English
Etymology
From Latin testāceus (“covered with a shell”)
Noun
testacea (uncountable)
- (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.
- (rare, obsolete) A testaceous substance, something made of shell or shell-like material.
See also
- Testacea (Translingual)
Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
testacea
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) testācea
- nominative feminine singular of testāceus
- nominative neuter plural of testāceus
- accusative neuter plural of testāceus
- vocative feminine singular of testāceus
- vocative neuter plural of testāceus
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) testāceā
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Biology
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with rare senses
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian adjective forms
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin adjective forms