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Spur-shell

Spur"-shell`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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