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selenizone

selenizone noun: an anatomical structure in the shells of some families of sea snails, consisting of a spiral band of growth lines on the shell surface.

Noun

selenizone (plural selenizones)

  1. An anatomical structure in the shells of some families of sea snails, consisting of a spiral band of growth lines on the shell surface.
    • The shapes are quite similar to the shape in Tapinotomaria, but their flat to convex selenizones are placed higher on the whorls and are located in the central portion of vertical whorl faces.1958, Ellis Leon Yochelson, Permian Gastropoda of the southwestern United States

Forms of selenizone

pluralselenizones

Questions about selenizone

What does selenizone mean?
Selenizone means an anatomical structure in the shells of some families of sea snails, consisting of a spiral band of growth lines on the shell surface.
What part of speech is selenizone?
Selenizone is a noun.
What is the plural of selenizone?
The plural of selenizone is selenizones.

Words near selenizone in the dictionary

  1. seleniuretted
  2. seleniuretted hydrogen
  3. selenize
  4. selenized
  5. selenizing
  6. selenizone
  7. selenizones
  8. seleno-
  9. selenoaldehyde
  10. selenoaldehydes
  11. selenoalkoxylation

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