Definition of Avicola
||A*vic"u*la (&?;), n. [L., small bird.]
(Zoöl.) A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly
interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed
resemblance of the typical species to a bird.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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