turban-shell

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TUR'BAN-SHELL, noun In natural history, a genus of shells, or rather of sea urchins, (echinodermata, ) of a hemispheric or spheroidal shape, the Cidaris of Klein.
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