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testacean

testacean adjective: covered with or having a shell.

Adjective

testacean (comparative more testacean, superlative most testacean)

  1. Covered with or having a shell.

Noun

testacean (plural testaceans)

  1. (obsolete) One of the rhizopods in the former grouping Testacea.

testacean meaning in Tamil

testacean in Tamil

தோட்டுயிரி

Forms of testacean

Adjective
comparativemore testacean
superlativemost testacean
Noun
pluraltestaceans

Origin of testacean

From Latin testaceus (“having a shell”) + -an.

Questions about testacean

What does testacean mean?
Testacean means covered with or having a shell.
What is testacean in Tamil?
Testacean in Tamil is தோட்டுயிரி. See Testacean meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is testacean?
Testacean can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near testacean in the dictionary

  1. testa
  2. testabilities
  3. testability
  4. testable
  5. testacea
  6. testacean
  7. testaceans
  8. testacellid
  9. testacellids
  10. testaceology
  11. testaceotheology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: testacean (page history and authors); testacean (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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