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lirulas

lirulas is the plural of lirula.

Meaning of lirula

Noun

lirula (plural lirulas or lirulae)

  1. A fungus of the genus Lirula, known to cause foliage diseases in conifers.
  2. A fine raised line on a mollusk shell.
    • 314. Seila assimilata C. B. Adams.
      Plate IV, Fig. 8
      Cerithiopsis assimilata C. B. Ad., […] Shell small, thin, turreted; nuclear whorls sinistral; whorls ten, ornamented with three prominent, sharp, equal, equidistant, raised spiral lines; interspaces between ridges crossed by numerous fine lirulas...1903, Ralph Arnold, The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California, page 290
  3. A tooth in the opercula of some bryozoans.

Questions about lirulas

What is lirulas the plural of?
Lirulas is the plural of lirula.

Words near lirulas in the dictionary

  1. lirting
  2. lirts
  3. Liruk
  4. lirula
  5. lirulae
  6. lirulas
  7. lirulæ
  8. lis
  9. lis pendens
  10. lis'en
  11. lis'ened

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