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Vermetus

Vermetus Meaning & Definition
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Vermetus In Webster's Dictionary

\Ver*me"tus\, n. [NL., from L. vermis worm.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to {Vermetus} and allied genera, of the family {Vermetid[ae]}. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.

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