Definition of Littorina

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Littorinidae: periwinkles.

Exact synonyms: Genus Littorina
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Family Littorinidae, Littorinidae
Member holonyms: Periwinkle, Winkle

Definition of Littorina

1. n. A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.

Medical Definition of Littorina

1. A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle. (19 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Littorina

littles
littlest
littlin
littling
littlings
littlins
littlish
littlun
littluns
littly
littoral
littoral cell
littoral water
littoral zone
littorals
littorina (current term)
littritis
litu
litui
lituiform
lituite
lituites
liturate
liturgic
liturgical
liturgically
liturgics
liturgies
liturgiologies
liturgiologist

Literary usage of Littorina

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John Mason Tyler (1921)
"... the maximum of the littorina depression and epoch of kitchen-middens at 6000 BC, full Neolithic at 4500 BC, beginning of Bronze period 1700 BC2 Keilhack ..."

2. Index Testaceologicus: An Illustrated Catalogue of British and Foreign by William Wood, Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1856)
"... black and white littorina Helix paradoxa, Born.— Chrysostomus N. Ch. v. 216, f. 1822-5.— Nerita c. Karst. i. pi. 4, f. 7.—TN Lam. —Kien. pi. 36, f. 5. ..."

3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"SNAIL, littorina LITTOREA.1 SAKYO KANDA. CONTENTS. Introduction Material and Methods 58 Experiments 61 i. Preliminary Experiments with Gravity and Light 61 ..."

4. A Manual of the Mollusca: Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1880)
"Tho species inhabit tho sea, or brackish water, and are mostly littoral, feeding on alga). littorina, Ferussac. Periwinkle. Etymology, littoralis, belonging ..."

5. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"... Arctic shell-beds—Ee-elevation—Arctic plant-beds— The Baltic a fresh-water lake—Immigration of flora—Re-submergence ; littorina-beds—Later glaciers—Dr. ..."

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