weavers' shuttle
nounEtymology
From its shape.
Definitions
An East Indian marine univalve shell (Radius volva).
- But the most siingular shell belonging to this group is the Waver's Shuttle, (Radius volva,) in which each end of the lip is produced into a very slender canal, longer than the body of the shell itself.
- Of the Ovulidae, the most curious is the "Weaver's-shuttle" ( Radius volva ) , in which the shell is peculiarly beaked at both ends .
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for weavers' shuttle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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