doliumn.
/ˈdəʊlɪəm/ 1. Roman History. A large earthenware jar or vessel, more or less spherical, for holding wine, oil, or dry commodities, etc.; hence, in modern use, a cask.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > earthenware vessel > large
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a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 29 For everey of the Kalender of the yere, a dolium of wyne.
1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick iv. xxiii. 152 For every Dolium, powder one ounce of Allome.
2. Zoology. A genus of gastropod molluscs, having a ventricose shell; also called tun.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > genus, member, or shell of genus Dolium
dolium1752
partridge tun1776
tun1837
tun-shell1889
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 149 From the resemblance of the body of this shell to a vessel for the containing fluids, the genus has been named dolium.
1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 115 (caption) Dolium, Lam. The tun.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 361.
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