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tonnoidean

tonnoidean noun: a sea snail of the superfamily Tonnoidea.

Noun

tonnoidean (plural tonnoideans)

  1. A sea snail of the superfamily Tonnoidea.
    • This is the only shallow-water tonnoidean that probably originally had a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate and tropical seas.2002, American Malacological Bulletin, page 107

Forms of tonnoidean

pluraltonnoideans

Questions about tonnoidean

What does tonnoidean mean?
Tonnoidean means a sea snail of the superfamily Tonnoidea.
What part of speech is tonnoidean?
Tonnoidean is a noun.
What is the plural of tonnoidean?
The plural of tonnoidean is tonnoideans.

Words near tonnoidean in the dictionary

  1. tonnids
  2. tonnish
  3. tonnishly
  4. tonnishness
  5. tonno
  6. tonnoidean
  7. tonnoideans
  8. Tonns
  9. Tonnu
  10. Tonnus
  11. tono-

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