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Definition of Mercenaria
1. Noun. A genus of Veneridae.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Family Veneridae, Veneridae
Definition of Mercenaria
1. n. The quahog.
Medical Definition of Mercenaria
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercenaria
Literary usage of Mercenaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"VENUS mercenaria Linnaeus Material. Live specimens of Venus mercenaria may be
... Descriptive Part Venus mercenaria is a common representative of the Class ..."
2. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1904)
"VENUS mercenaria Linne. Plate LXXVIII, Figs. 1, 2. Venus mercenaria ...
mercenaria mercenaria Conrad, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. ..."
3. Bulletin by Natural History Society of New Brunswick (1887)
"This is one of the two or three Molluscs popularly included under the name
Quahog—Venus mercenaria being the true Quahog. In general appearance these two ..."
4. Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts by Augustus Addison Gould, Massachusetts Zoological and Botanical Survey (1870)
"Venus mercenaria. FIG. 52. Shell solid, obliquely ovate, ... mercenaria mercenaria,
CHENU, Man. de Conch, ii. 82, figs. 356-358 (1862). ..."
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