Naticidae

noun

moonshells

• Syn: ↑family Naticidae

• Hypernyms: ↑mollusk family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Gastropoda, ↑class Gastropoda, ↑Gasteropoda, ↑class Gasteropoda

• Member Meronyms: ↑moon shell, ↑moonshell

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\\nəˈtisəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Natica, type genus + -idae

: a family of carnivorous marine gastropod mollusks (suborder Taenioglossa) that have strong globose umbilicate shells, a long retractile proboscis, and a firm dark-colored operculum and that deposit their eggs in firm sandy ribbons — see moon shell, natica, sand collar