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periconch Zool.|ˈpɛrɪkɒŋk|
[f. Gr. περί around + κόγχη shell.]
A shell growing around the body in the veliger or larval form of a mollusc.
1888Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. XXIII. 542 Professors Hyatt and Brooks consider the protoconch in cephalous molluscs as..probably derived from the periconch of Scaphopods. |