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wentletrap
[ wen-tl-trap ]
noun
- any of several marine gastropods of the family Epitonii (Scalariidae), having a whitish, spiraled shell.
wentletrap
/ ˈwɛntəlˌtræp /
noun
- any marine gastropod mollusc of the family Epitoniidae, having a long pointed pale-coloured longitudinally ridged shell
Word History and Origins
Origin of wentletrap1
Word History and Origins
Origin of wentletrap1
Example Sentences
Painters depicted shells, with names as wonderful as “precious wentletrap” and “speckled episcopal miter,” arrayed on banquet tables or in the hands of exulting deities.
Churchill and colleagues suspect the snails' evolution may have gone like this: From time to time, bottom-dwelling wentletrap ancestors accidentally trapped small bubbles in their egg nets, and then floated to the surface until those bubbles popped.
Because those high waters abounded in edible jellyfish, some wentletrap ancestors began to capitalize on making more bubbles, eventually floating exclusively.
It was a Wentletrap on which the little red eyes of Mr. Endymion Scraper were fixed at this moment.
Has any of my readers seen a Precious Wentletrap?
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