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Meaning of cocculinellid | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.

Examples

“Papers on cocculinellid limpets and southern Australian Triphoridae were published, and papers on deep-sea pectinodontine, cocculinid, and pseudococculinid limpets are ready for submission.”
“In the absence of the highly diagnostic cocculinellid radula, Marshall (1983) referred C. coercita to Cocculinella because of the close similarity of the shell to those of C. minutissima and the New Zealand Recent species C. osteophila Marshall, 1983.”
“Cocculinellids have a narrowly elliptical aperture and subcentral apex.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

cocculinid cocculolidine cocculus indicus coccus coccyalgia coccydynia

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