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Definition of "testacean" []

  • Any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea, characterized by the presence of a shell. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "testacean" in a sentence
  • "The testacean is almost the only genus that throughout all its species is non-copulative."
  • "Even in the case of the testacean we speak of spawning (or pregnancy); but whereas the crustaceans may be seen coupling and laying their spawn, this is never the case with testaceans."
  • "Molluscs, after pairing and copulation, lay a white spawn; and this spawn, as in the case of the testacean, gets granular in time."
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