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Meaning of BUCCINUM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Buc"ci*num\, n. [L., a trumpet, a trumpet shell.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic
seas. It includes the common whelk ({B. undatum}).
 

 

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